On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:54:36PM -0700, Lawrence wrote:
> but despite Carrol Cox's insistence that there is nothing new under
> the sun, there does seem something new here. It is old news for companies to
> take technologies from universities and then put to them use in commercial
> applications. But the company is then in charge of the commercial
> application. Here, things are almost reversed. IBM will be taking orders
> from others, partly the on-campus crowd that does so much of the work.
> Unless IBM can find a way to order students to do just what it wants, it
> will have to bend with the on-campus fads. More so, nothing can get into the
> Linux Kernel without the approval of Linus Torvaldos, and he is not an IBM
> employee. Though that could change in the future, of course.
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