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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (22284)	12/24/1998 1:53:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> IBM Linux Good Link: zdnet.com It should be interesting to see how the patent issue noted plays out. For IBM, this is just code talk for making it proprietary. Typically, the patent office lets IBM get away with all sorts of bullshit software patents. (They have one for sound compression based on taking out periods of silence!) Hopefully, the Linux and OSF guys will burn their house down if they try that in this situation. The thing is, Red Hat may have reasons to sell out to big blue, but the core developers of Linux will have absolutely the opposite conviction. Right now it sounds like IBM doesn't get it. Of course they still make a ton of money on their OS, so they may see Linux as the enemy. But vis-a-vis MSFT, Linux is their friend, any BS happy talk about this not being an NT killer aside. Cheers, Chaz