[BowBun]

This has some awesome implications for open source. If a huge company like IBM openly supports and dedicates resources to FOSS, I think we can expect these products to get way more attention and receive the full treatment of corporate testing and development which would really offset the ephemeral nature of projects like Node. Not saying the current foundation guys aren't doing a great job already, but IBM's expertise in software can only be a plus I think!

[vidarh]

IBM has been an open source supporter for a long time. Their first Linux kernel contributions came no later than '99 (when they started upstreaming changes to support Linux on their mainframes, available since 2000).

You can see some details about their open source contributions here: http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/ossstds/oss/ossindex.html

[murukesh_s]

And Eclipse.. When it was open sourced, it was one of the largest project to be open sourced.

[vezzy-fnord]

IBM have been a major Linux contributor since around 2000 (just as a more recent example), so they aren't exactly new to FOSS.

[BowBun]

Never said so :)