Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Would you agree, though, that mainframe users tend much more to be legal than
personal users?
No, I would disagree.
Regardless of the platform, I believe that the larger (and medium-2-large)
companies (also known as customers) are totally honest!
But, there are many independent vendors who do not treat them that way.
And, we end up with obscure and hard to maintain key-based solutions that just
tick us off!
Key-based solutions exist on mianframe as well as on other systems.
I think it is rather technical, not ethical or organisational issue: It is
*easy* to have illegal software on PC, sometimes you are even unaware of it. I
mean a lot of small but usefull tools like Windows Commander, archivizers,
DVD-burning software etc. etc.
Even if you have some "tools" for z/OS it is simply not so easy to install it on the host
- usually several persons are involed, usually someone could ask - "Did we buy it ? How did
you get it ?".
From the other hand, people are interested in having some bells & whistles on *their* PC
(even company owned), while mainframe is not *their*. It is not *personal*. It's
"common".
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