I think it’s a worth while effort. I know they burnt a lot of good will in the past but they are a major contributor to the Linux mobile effort. We shouldn’t rely on IBM for everything.
Long story short they burnt good will buy pre selling Linux phones with a “no questions asked” refund policy. The phone was delayed for literal years and they changed the refund policy such that you couldn’t really get a refund. People were rightfully upset.
IBM/Redhat do the lion share of Linux development.
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mholiv@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I think it’s a worth while effort. I know they burnt a lot of good will in the past but they are a major contributor to the Linux mobile effort. We shouldn’t rely on IBM for everything.
IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I'm not well informed on this topic. How did they burn good will? And right now IBM is putting most of the development work into this OS?
mholiv@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Long story short they burnt good will buy pre selling Linux phones with a “no questions asked” refund policy. The phone was delayed for literal years and they changed the refund policy such that you couldn’t really get a refund. People were rightfully upset.
IBM/Redhat do the lion share of Linux development.
IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Interesting, thanks for responding!