Good luck embarrassing IBM anywhere, including (or especially) at
shareholders meeting. During the 1980 OCO wars I was involved in
industry efforts (it wasn't just SHARE/GUIDE, ADAPSO pushed too on
behalf of software vendor members) fighting. I went to shareholders
meeting and suggested to IBM Chairman (Akers then, I think) that OCO be
reevaluated. He'd obviously been briefed in the issue because he was
ready with all sorts of promises, e.g., that source would removed only
when it was no longer necessary and abundant exits tailored to user
requirements would help make source obsolete. At least on the VM side,
at least for decades, that was utter rubbish.
Funny side note -- though OCO/source was a sore point with IBM for
several years, I couldn't have wanted a better warm up act at the
meeting before being called on; I was second. The first speaker
harangued Akers about needing to unionize IBM. If there was anything
LESS palatable for IBM than continuing to provide source code, it was
unionization. So he was probably happy to hear from me.
Clark Morris wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2016 14:30:01 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
> [email protected] (David Cole) wrote:
>> Yep.
>> But Google does...
> If I were willing to spend the dollars to go to an IBM shareholders
> meeting, I would like to embarrass them abut this and the high
> reliability of the service web-site.
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