All good ideas come from a single individual, and by constantly putting
roadblocks in their paths, progress stops. Patents and copyrights mean
that people cannot "stand on the shoulders" of those who went in front
of them When you make a judgment (that stifling the competition, for
example) is only way to operate a business, or company or country, then
all other methods (such as co-operation or even co-petition) are locked out
And so, with developers unable to get easy access to mainframes, I see
innovation in that area dying out.
It can be no other way.
It's a shame, but unless IBM does do a big rethink on this, and allows
small developers some sort of inexpensive or free access to the
mainframes, they will die. Allowing a "hobbyist" license for Z/OS, VM
and VSE on Hercules would be one way, and what does IBM really have to
lose? And the gain would be that they could have many people working at
no cost on these systems developing tools and applications to make them
better and better.
Cheers,
Clement Clarke
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