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IBM has been a leading proponent of the Open Source Initiative, and began supporting Linux in 1998.[1]


As a note for the IBM section you are using these websites as references:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1632149.1632165

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25148740?seq=6

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167624509000201#aep-section-id10

Evidence of open-source adoption

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IBM(Editted)

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Originally, IBM was not the company that branched out to any means of open source software. They upheld into believing that Intellectual Property along with other privatized means of software around the 1990's.[2] From a citation, it wasn't until IBM was challenged by the evolving competitive market, specifically from Microsoft, that they decided to invest their resources more into open source software. Since then, their focus shifted more on customer service and a more robust software support.[2] IBM has been a leading proponent of the Open Source Initiative, and began supporting Linux in 1998.[1]

As another example, IBM had decided to make the Eclipse IDE(integrated development environment) open-source causing other companies to release their other IDEs due to Eclipse's popularity and outreach to the market.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "IBM launches biggest Linux lineup ever". IBM. March 2, 1999. Archived from the original on November 10, 1999.
  2. ^ a b Munga, Neeshal; Fogwill, Thomas; Williams, Quentin (2009-10-12). "The adoption of open source software in business models: a Red Hat and IBM case study". Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists. SAICSIT '09. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 112–121. doi:10.1145/1632149.1632165. ISBN 978-1-60558-643-4.
  3. ^ Fitzgerald, Brian (2006). "The Transformation of Open Source Software". MIS Quarterly. 30 (3): 587–598. doi:10.2307/25148740. ISSN 0276-7783.