Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
His view would be that it would make it easy for customers to move
applications from non-IBM platforms to MVS. My claim was industry
motivation for "open" was that it would make it trivial for customers to
move applications to whatever platform they wanted to
How about "if all my disparate operating systems support TCP/IP and C/C++, it's 
easier to accomplish the mission"?

Which is more or less what it has come down to.

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www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

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