On 8/30/19 8:51 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>     On the other hand, IBM's buziness is to sale computers and chips,
> not an OS, and it has been supporting linux for long, because it helps
> saling computers.


IBM sells OS too.. in the past i've worked with the boring OS/400 for
as/400 machines (also called iseries) using ppc processors.
(back in the day, left all that behind years ago..)
license cost, (iirc calculated per number of cpus used), at least a
million U$ per year... and they still maintain(?) another proprietary
unix, aix. (maybe z/os too, not sure..)
so yes, it makes money from selling OS licenses too.. lots of money...

but maybe its getting too costy and employees too old to maintain that
ancient code, they'll probably just use linux/x86 in mainframes too, and
fire some more people from os/ppc depts to reduce costs.

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other than that, i agree. they only care about selling stuff, profits,
so any news about another evil inc, is spam/ads.