In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 12/04/2007
at 06:15 PM, "Van Dalsen, Herbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Surely the copy of windows that you are running is fully licensed?
If it exists.
>Why expect IBM to give it away for free.
Have you stopped beating your wife? Why should he defend a claim that he
never made? He quoted a suggestion of "$100 a pop"; perhaps that's not the
price you want, but it's certainly not free.
>In my Opinion, if you look at the true meaning of copyright - it
>means that like reading a book, it cannot be done by more than one
>person at any given time without buying a second copy
That interpretation would startle the founding fathers. Copyright means
exactly what the name suggests.
>Yet, does Microsoft allow this
What m$ allows has nothing to do with what copyright law allows.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 12/05/2007
at 12:16 PM, "Van Dalsen, Herbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In my opinion, what makes IBM code safe in terms Auditing risk, is the
>fact that only IBM labs work on it. You need a really P'd-off IBMer to
>plant a Trojan in the code, and a few P'd-off testers to miss it during
>testing. So I would not be in favor of open source for the mainframe.
Nobody will be running production on a reference implementation. Further,
making the source available does not require accepting source changes from
the general public. A fork of the reference implementation would not be
the reference implementation.
>What I would be in favor of is a platform where developers
>outside of IBM can present new software designs/ideas to be included
>after proper securitization.
It would need to pass a legal screening and I'm not sure what that would
cost.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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