Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbVL3LS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:18:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751249AbVL3LS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:18:28 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:27340 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751248AbVL3LS2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:18:28 -0500 Subject: Re: userspace breakage From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43B4774F.7030703@wolfmountaingroup.com> References: <1135798495.2935.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051228212313.GA4388@elte.hu> <20051228214845.GA7859@elte.hu> <20051228201150.b6cfca14.akpm@osdl.org> <20051229073259.GA20177@elte.hu> <20051229202852.GE12056@redhat.com> <20051229224103.GF12056@redhat.com> <43B453CA.9090005@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43B46078.1080805@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43B4774F.7030703@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1135941429.3342.19.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 29 On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:54 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [....] > The fact that Oracle and IBM support apps on Linux are Freeloading? Baloney! > Linux benefits by having the choice of al these applications. Do they have binary-only kernel modules or user-space apps? > (P.S. I have heard through the grapevine IBM is putting emphasis on AIX > as their platform and are actively telling this to large customers -- > can you verify this and are you aware of it) Not knwoing any inner IBM things, the simple commercial explanation is: If a customer buys AIX, he is forced to buy the hardware at IBM. And IBM is a hardware selling (and consulting) company anyways, it never was a "software company". Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/