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Re: Good move from IBM.



On 2001 November? 7 ,Wednesday 16:07, you wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/technology/05OPEN.html
>
> This is clearly an open(source) war on microsoft from IBM.

For the sake of others: the title of the article is: "Some I.B.M. 
Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain".

The first paragraph reads:

- - -

I.B.M. plans to announce today that it is placing $40 
million of its software tools in the public domain as the first step 
toward founding an open-source organization for developers.

- - -

IBM Israel also shows goodwill - according to Captain Internet, IBM 
has committed to creating a Hebrew version of StarOffice/OpenOffice 
by the end of the year. Given that IBM is also behind the Hebrew 
version of Mozilla, it seems that this is indeed part of a strategy.

Herouth

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