On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:53 PM, McKown, John wrote:
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Subject: Re: T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:12:40 -0600, Doc Farmer wrote:
Come on, IBM! Make that software available to IBM-MAIN'ers,
RACF-L'ers,
etc., for $100 a pop, and you'll be able to make at least
$20 profit on each
One PMR on such a system would put IBM in the red. Who would pay for
software support? How much? Some developers would likely
freeload for
service on supported systems to which they have or pretend to have
access, not a welcome prospect for IBM.
-- gil
Such software could be distributed with "no support". But then, people
would want access to PTFs and the like. If nothing else, that would
cost
IBM (or somebody) for Intenet bandwidth. Perhaps such people could
fund
a "restricted access" PTF server. IBM might, or might not, want to
allow
"informal" problem reporting. But the cost of that could be quite
significant. Perhaps some sort of "user group", similar to PWD?
--
John
How about SHARE? that seems reasonable option (to me).
Ed
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