On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:05:01 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >Yeah, not implementing "non greedy" regular expressions is "not nice". In my >not-so-humble opinion. IMO, IBM would have done much better by all to start >with Linux as a "base" and do whatever was needed to get it POSIX compliant >and certified. But, IBM tends to have NIH real bad. And z/OS development (or >management) really seems to have it bad. Maybe I've been around the FOSS and >GNU people too much recently. > No, IBM is merely revenue-oriented. Well, a little NIH, but mostly because of fear of IP and malware liability.
Still, I wish OMVS had merely supplied a kernel (ASCII-based, of course) and let shell and utilities happen by osmosis from FOSS. Actually IIRC, in the early releases shell and utilities were separately priced but FOSS never happened. I blame EBCDIC. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
