On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> one DVD and do it in that manner. Or another method, borrowing from the PC > world and in the mainframe world, CA, and give the customer an activation > fee. If the fee is not entered, the product doesn't work. I get an > activation code (or whatever it's called), once a year from CA for vmBackup. Dealing with product keys is a pain and I recall spending my days off between X-mas and new years eve to request and install new keys for CA products. It would be most unattractive if IBM would modify all licensed products to require product keys. Burning a DVD is no rocket science anymore. IBM has enough operating systems that are less affected by virus threats, so they could avoid per-order DVD with a virus. But if you order the products, you get a unique id to download the envelopes from IBM, don't you? What's the problem with that? I can understand that downloading a full DVD of z/VM is less attractive, but downloading the HLASM envelope is far less than the average PC freebie. -Rob
