<snip> I was referring to PSI asserting anti-trust. It is not that this would trump IBM's patent claims, but might mitigate them if IBM were making it too difficult to license. It would also cause IBM problems if they were to license the patents but IBM then refuses to allow z/OS (or z/VM or z/VSE) to run on other than IBM hardware.
And then there is the history of having its hand slapped [IBM] for this behavior in the past. IBM would have an uphill battle in proving the anti-trust claim is invalid because of past problems in light of two new PCM wannabes that get stopped from expanding, after all the other competition to IBM's mainframe systems went away. But again, I am not a lawyer. I am only looking at this from a historical viewpoint. Later, Steve Thompson <snip> Nor am I a lawyer, but it would appear to me that PSI lawyers could also attack the patent itself as being justified. After all, how many ways can there be to round a number to the nearest integer? Could you properly require every hardware manufacturer to come up with a new means for rounding? And, why hasn't IBM gone after HP or SUN or anyone that uses a computer to round? How about my TI calculator? Does it round also? Tom Moulder ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
