On 9/13/05, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much of z/OS is OCO because: (1) IBM doesn't want people to use > "internal" interfaces, probably because it forces IBM to "freeze" the > interface thus inhibiting changing it radically; (2) it is a good way to > make some money by selling the information under an NDA.
Not sure whether this applies to z/OS as well, but a popular reason for not providing the source code can also be (3) the code is written in a language for which IBM does not want to ship a compiler. Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
