Thanks for the good news Mike!
I speak for myself and not for IBM.
I should be working on CUPS and Samba printing, but this thread has created
an itch I just have to scratch. I'll shed some light on the conspiracy
theory, though you won't find a smoking gun :))
<Snip a bunch of good news>
In October of this year, both the redbook and the code were pulled from IBM
Web sites (apparently not as thoroughly as possible :) to be "serviced".
Thanks for the update. I'm just rather perplexed at why such an apparently
straightforward situation caused you to say (on IBM-MAIN):
'Indeed, the redbook and the associated code are no longer available. As to
the reason, I was told what I could *not* say, but not what I could say, so
you might guess as to the area of the business that decree came from.'
That's a rather 'sinister' statement for a simple temporary withdrawal for
update. I think you can understand where the conspiracy theory came from...
given there have been other intimations of tension between open-sourcers
and, shall we say, 'Luddites' in various bits of IBMs mainframe business?
Like the folks who decided Hercules was an excellent development platform
for Linux, and the folks who subsequently issued a Decree that It Never
Happened... :)
Mike
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