Yeah, but IBM doesn't have a good track record of buying out companies and making them profitable. Anyone remember when IBM bought out Lotus? Anyone remember w

Yeah, but IBM doesn't have a good track record of buying out companies and making them profitable. Anyone remember when IBM bought out Lotus? Anyone remember when IBM was making OS/2 with Microsoft? IBM got out of the PC desktop, laptop, and printer markets. They got out of the Intel server markets as well. IBM should just provide service for Linux and make their own FOSS apps for Linux that they can sell support for. Maybe invest or submit code to ReactOS, HaukOS, AROS, or OSFree? The least that IBM can do is document every OS/2 API call so someone can write an FOSS alternative to it, or a WINE like environment for Linux.