Software development is not a zero sum game.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes" Appropriate tagline: --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Most people thought [in 2000] that Web content should somehow be “free,” a hopelessly naïve ideology known today as “dot-communism.”...Dot-communism has been discarded along with its political counterpart, as users find that the adjective “free” means, as it always does, “paid for by someone else,” who insists on getting it back one way or another. -David S Platt, "Introducing Microsoft .NET, Third Edition", 2003 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 20:16 I wish. GMU is using proprietary e-mail software and no longer allows access via POP3 or IMAP4. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 5:53 PM Add to that the open-source mindset that software SHOULD BY RIGHT be "free" and you have a tough market to break into (again) from a for-profit company perspective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
