Lindy Mayfield asks > Would you agree, though, that mainframe users tend much more to be legal > than personal users?
I would say that practically all large customers are about as legal as they can possibly be and that there are strong external factors that drive them to behave that way. SOX here and corporate legal/accounting restrictions in many overseas markets make it fairly unlikely that customers in typical "western world" jurisdictions will intentionally stiff their providers. Accidental discrepancies are another matter, but overall I don't see it as a huge black hole sucking money out of the business. Of course I don't have anything to do with how licensing is done, so my opinion is irrelevant. I'd love to see a hobbyist license for many things, but they are extremely unlikely to show up any time soon (if at all) BTW> all mainframe customers are also "distributed" customers. There's no such thing as an all-mainframe shop any more. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
