CNET editor Stephen Shankland reports on the LinuxWorld keynote talk delivered today by Steve Mills, head of IBM's software group . . .

” . . . IBM funds more than 250 engineers working on 70 projects for the Linux kernel, the heart of the operating system. About 5,000 IBM employees are involved in Linux work.”

“IBM's support of Linux is in part a response to its customers, who prefer open standards and widely available technology to proprietary systems, Mills said. That approach hasn't always been popular at IBM, which has kept control over technology such as Token Ring networking and the MicroChannel Architecture for plugging components into computers . . .”

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