On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:42:58 -0400, Denis Gäbler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thats true, but recent lawsuits in the distributed area had no luck forcing users to run only specific work on bought (owned) hardware, e.g. you can do number crunching on graphic chips, which were initially only intended for graphics work. >It would be interesting to see, if there is any way to force somebody to only use certified software on specific owned hardware? >Another example that comes into mind is the uncertified use of OpenWRT on any router (DSL/Wireless) in the world. Linksys/Cisco has no way of preventing me from running this linux distribution on my own bought or rented router and make use of whatever the chips on the hardware may provide. > >From: Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 9:25 am >Subject: Re: Offload work to zIIP with zPRIME > > IBM software pricing terms are careful to use the term "eligible >workloads". This deliberate use of the language suggests that their >pricing terms might *not* apply to zIIPs and zAAPs running anything >other than IBM-specified eligible workloads. Time will tell...? >? Agree partly I also am running openWRT or Tomato on my Cisco/Linksys WRT54GS at home and yes i do not see how I can be stopped. This is my machine . But we are speaking of running IBM licensed software on something else than General purpose engines. Obviously IBM has managed to "legally" stop people from running z/OS on Intel platfrom and the like, so I guess they could do something similar on zIIP or zAAP What would be nice would be to have the official definition of : "eligible workload" But I am sur we will have to wait for sometimes :-)) As for the ethical part of the business that was referred to on another post by Bob, I firmly believe that either we are speaking business or we are speaking ethics and in this case ethics should go both ways. After all, customer are charged for software on LPAR where it is not used ( RACF, RMM , CTG are some examples) So it is a bit weird that customers should be prevented to defend their own interest and try to use fully their owned hardware. Not a simple story and as everyone said, we shall see Bruno Sugliani zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr http://zxnetconsult.free.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
