I say yes to a Mainframe co-op. It could morph into a very useful thing over time.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Grant Taylor Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2020 2:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Migrate z/OS DASD volumes from Mainframe to Hercules Environment On 7/4/20 6:27 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > If anybody gets upset it will be because of "just because you feel > z/OS ought to be free (as in beer"; few if any posters here have > suggested such a belief. What I have seen is posters asking for > affordable hobbyist license fees. Agreed. > I'm not the one suggesting the co-op, but at first glance the idea is > intriguing. I lobbed the idea of a co-op out there the same way that people throw things at the wall to see how things stick and what the reaction is. But it does seem like there is some interest, some of it more than casual. I'm now thinking that a poll might be in order. Please reply to this message, either publicly or privately, if you are interested in having a more serious discussion about a mainframe co-op. > I'm already paying an annuual support fee for ArcaOS, a rebranded > OS/2; if I could get z/OS and z/VM on Hercules at comparable cost then > it wouldn't break my budget. I seriously doubt that we will ever be able to legally run z/OS on Hercules. I suspect that it would have to be on an older / smaller system or z/PDT or guest VMs on someone's larger system. > The deciding factor would be the license terms; it would have to be > legal to use the platform to develop commercial software. I don't object to the idea. But my limited understanding is that such probably raises the bar more than little bit. -- Grant. . . . unix || die ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
