> And among the "mainframe" people are some who remember the great OCO war of > the late 80's, early 90's between the VM world and IBM. A compromise (of > sorts) was reached where that part of VM that had always been source code > would remain so and so would new features that were not related to company > trade secrets. > > The paradigm for VM had always been the availability of source code. A lot > of the innovation in the early days of VM was driven by the user world > because the source code was available.
Are there some "history" pages about these discussions? Are parts of the current VM code available from IBM? How much of that code has changed from being available then to closed source? Seems like "good-old" VM customers understand how important source code is for a better operating system... cu, Florian La Roche
