In <[email protected]>, on 06/10/2011
at 12:02 PM, Steve Horein <[email protected]> said:
>Couldn't IBM glean that data from who licenses a mainframe OS?
That depends very much on what licenses are still extant. As an
example, if a customer licenses software with a one-time charge, IBM
has no way to know whether the customer is still using it.
>Even a back-leveled OS needs a license to run, yes?
5741-SC1?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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