On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously the point of view of someone who doesn't make a living by > selling their software.
Au contraire, I sure do make my living selling software. My point is that in my experience, the cost of fighting the CPUID battle isn't worth it. The counterexamples cited are pathological -- given a CPUID, such shops would just hack it (not that hard, no matter what anyone says). The expired SAS shop Barry cites is another example of someone going around it. I just don't see the point. FWIW, I've never had to live with the customer end of CPUIDs -- only the vendor end. But I fail to see how they would ever be seen as a boon by customers. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
