From: "Paul Ranson" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3e4950de{at}w3.nls.net...
> I don't think that. Partly it's people kicking in free time/work but also
> it's where comps are willing to cooperate on doing bits of the
> "infrastrucure" they need e.g HP'es work on Itanium porting,
IBM'es work
on
> PPC porting, many comps (inc HP & IBM) on clustering etc. WRT the desktop
I
> think it may end up being the actual major hardware vendors (Dell, Sony et
> al) who end up driving that (as they should).

These corps are cooperating with the 'movement' on minor details. I don't
see it lasting and widening in scope. Why would Dell and Sony cooperate so
that they can compete on hardware alone when they could do better by not
cooperating?

I still think there's a major disconnect between the intent and long term
affect of the GPL and corporate America.

Paul

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