On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:54 AM Tom Brennan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> When I bought my Yamaha piano in 1989, I heard a story that Yamaha had
> been supplying free pianos to universities for years. It was more than
> them just being nice, they knew that someone practicing every day on the
> school grand piano would likely go on to buy one, or be the decision
> maker for an orchestra, night club, or whatever. I always thought that
> was super smart of them. What I always thought was rather dumb, is that
> IBM doesn't do similar with educational use of all their software. And
> that's just copied bits ... no wood, metal, delivery, tuning, etc.
>
>
I want an _affordable_ version of zPDT for _myself_ as a _hobbiest_. The
current zPDT seems to be for "home workers" of an ISV or maybe office
workers for a 2-3 person operation (IDK). I just looked and it is $900/yr
U.S. . I can afford that. But I'm not an ISV. And I don't want to "bother"
with whatever it takes to convince IBM that I am an ISV. Mainly because I'd
be lying through my teeth. And I'm not a scum politician, so I'm adverse to
doing that. {yeah, I'm being tacky}
--
People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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