Guys, can you please send this kind of emails privatly since this has
nothing to do with linux and hams..
I am allready getting so many SPAM emails and this just adds....
Thnx
A fellow ham
Martin
PD1AJE
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Mike Bilow wrote:
>
>
> Dirk Koopman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
>
> DK> It was only after said teams of system programmers got OS
> DK> reasonably stable and shared the results that IBM were able to
> DK> decide that they would no longer provide source and start
> DK> charging squillions (whatever happened to iebupdite?)
>
> Also, in the mainframe world, you don't pay for software until you accept it,
> which often comes after months of testing. Although the mainframe software
> buyer may not get source code, they retain considerable leverage over the
> vendor just by the threat of not paying and ultimately refusing acceptance.
> Contrast this with the PC world, where you can't even get a refund for the
> Windows operating system if you have no plans to use it!
>
> -- Mike
>
>
