Charles Mills wrote: > The patents allegedly are on OS/390 and z/OS however, not hardware.
Yes - I found that intriguing. Presumably a customer who licenses a copy of z/OS to run on a z9 gets a licence to all relevant patents thrown in; how could anyone do business without? So why wouldn't a licence to run on a PSI box include the same thing? Or is it not a patent licence, but just a promise not to sue - a promise IBM is not willing to extend to users of non-IBM hardware? It's also quite possible that the IBM PR people simply got their claims wrong. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
