How about sponsoring from IBM?

[Joerg Mayer]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:47:56PM -0200, Roland wrote:
> If the assumption is true I think those 10 Million would be the best spent 
> part of that 1 Billion.

It looks like IBM spends its money on the products they themselvs use
heavily, as well as training and making the name of Linux more popular
(aka advertising/PR). I may have missed it but I haven't seen IBM spend
money on a Linux(related) project just to further the project. If they
wanted to spend $10e7 just to improve programs/tools just for the "good"
of it I would be sad to see this money spent on wine. I'd like to see
it spent on the development/improvement of *native* Linux apps that
fulfill the need of current Windows users.

  Ciao
              Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer at loplof.de>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.