Re: IBM & patches

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at arabeyes dot org>]

Well I did smell something fishy after knowing that WINE got the same cycle of 
development as OO ..it seems that by not agreeing to individual licenses to 
these apps, IBM is keeping those patches for them selves.. but in the other 
hand .. it seems that the OO license allows SUN to use the code for their 
products but not anyone else.. and the WINE allowes the code weavers to use 
the code .. it seems that these type of semi-open licenses are the one 
hurting .. but again .. I think that IBM is making changes that they would 
like to keep for them selves .. I'd really like to see if IBM would present a 
newly patches Xterm or a modified Aspell in Bahrain for Arabic .. if they did 
do such development they MUST share it .. and it seems that due to the 
ignorance of Open Source in the Arab world their acquisition for the code 
will not be noticed ..


On Friday 24 May 2002 01:21, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Now that I have a minute - could someone explain to me what IBM's
> role in the Open Source is all about ?  Is it me or are they into
> creating patches for the heck of it - or are they releasing things
> under their own license ?  Why put resources into something that will
> not be used ?
>
> The reason I ask this is due to the two recent episodes with OpenOffice
> (OO) and Wine - in both cases, code/patches were created and "leaked" but
> not incorporated into the project's main trunk.
>
> Is there anything that we can do (or people we can contact) to note these
> issues ?  Certainly the people at /. and K5 would have a field day with
> this news as it would serve as a blemish on IBM's roadmap in the Open
> Source Arena (they've been a loud advocate if memory serves).  Could the
> two contacts in .il serve as bridges to getting the real story on what
> they are doing -- I've attempted to contact a number of people in IBM .eg
> without so much as a "got your email note".
>
> Just curious; any thoughts (do we have any solid contacts within IBM) ?
>
>  - Nadim
>
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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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