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I want to clarify my comment about IBM being the "exception". It seems
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to me that IBM has an internal struggle going on. There is Jim Russell
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and David Shields who do research and development work and understand
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the issues behind free software. The IBM management does not. Richard
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Stallman pointed out during the Free Software panel discussion that
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the license for the Jikes source is written such that at any time, IBM
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can shutdown the ability for anyone to modify and distribute the
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code. Thus failing to attain the term Open Source(TM). (i.e. you cannot
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call Jikes Open Source because of this.) Also, there was a recent
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posting to the LXNY mail list about a speaker from IBM who was going
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to talk about the new mailer software which could replace
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sendmail. The lawyers at IBM prevented this new mailer program from
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being released under an Open Source type license. Thus the free
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software battles rage inside the hallowed halls of IBM.
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