Interesting argument, kind of reminds of an exchange in the movie "Godfather":
Tatalia : ... I'm talking about all the politicians he carrys in his pocket ... Barzini : ... He must let us draw the water from the well ... off course Don Corleone can present a bill for his services. We are not communists after all ... To me it seems IBM is going way beyond "keeping their secrets". It seems they are trying to outlaw all reverse engineering and all emulation. Looks very much like a text book example of "unfair business practice" to me though a legal expert can surely disagree. On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:14:12 -0600, Roger Bowler <ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >S/390-based technology is critical to the functioning of our society. IBM >does not have the right to keep society-critical technology secret, nor to >hold society to ransom by preventing competitors from producing compatible >systems. > >Roger Bowler >http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler >Hercules "the people's mainframe" My heart felt thanks to the creator of Hercules "the people's mainframe". Mohammad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
