Don, Hang on. The Blue Hammers are only $40 if you hammer 1000 nails a day. If you start hammering 2000 nails a day the guy from the hardware store knocks on your door and asks for another $40. He doesn't care how many nails you hammer a day with the red hammer.
I recall this analogy being explained with spanners and cars. You buy a spanner for you Toyota, and everyone time you buy a better, faster car you have to pay the hardware store a few dollars more to use the spanner on it. But it's still the same freaking spanner! Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Don Williams > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator > > A carpenter goes the hardware store to buy some hammers. They are offer him > some all-round general purpose blue hammers for $40 each. He can use them to > build anything we wants. Also with the purchase of each blue hammer, he can > get a special purpose red hammer for $10 each. However, he is only allowed > to build coffee shacks with the red hammers. Later, a traveling craftsman > shows up at the carpenter's house and tells him that (for a fee) he modify > the red hammers (paint them blue), so that they could used to build almost > anything. > > How does the carpenter feel about the hardware store? About the blue > hammers? About the red hammers? About the craftsman? > > Who's right? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
