[Coral Snake]

We TOLD these open source cultists that IBM was only after a "free lunch" from them on a server OS and this little article from one of their favorite foreign sources PROVES it!!!!

[glorgau]

This is all just marketing droids (i.e. corporate Vice Presidents) trying to create their very own "reality distortion fields".

The big thing that OpenOffice lacks is the Visual Basic hooks into everything MS Office. Visual Basic allows "applications" to be created from the office suite and many people make quite a good living doing just that..

[yhwhsman]

I'm not sure how spending a billion dollars can be considered a 'free lunch'. Even if that amount was exagerated and it was only $500,000 that's still one helluva tip.

Yhwhsman

[dfrussell]

Karen Smith, vice president of Linux strategy and market development at IBM

1. If IBM was serious about linux, they wouldn't have a woman in this job. No, I'm not sorry for saying it, it's a fact.

2. IBM is in business to make money. The idiot running the company needs software sales with high profit margins etc. to make up for all the money losing contracts he wrote while he was moving up in the Co. As it is, stock prices are trending down.

3. Linux, to IBM, is a way to keep mainframe sales moving, and they make a *lot* of money on those mainframes.

4. Don't buy IBM stock, they're cooking the books.

[N3WBI3]

umm fine so IBM only wanted a fre lunch, with the GPL I dont care why you may contribute because now its open..