I will be ok with this on exactly the day that IBM releases source for z/OS and z/VM (plus ISPF and their compilers) under a license like either BSD or GPL, and not until then. (I would enjoy playing with something newer than MVS 3.8j under Hercules, I admit...)
What can I as a mere individual with no vast wealth do to convince Sun that they're just fine on their own, albeit perhaps cooperating with IBM and others where it's in their mutual interest? I have bought five used and one new Sun workstation over the years, (far more than any other single brand or even CPU type of computer I've had), plus a few hundred bucks of other odds and ends (new). I don't do stock; not anybody's, whatever I think of them, because I'd become an obsessive market-watcher for sure. And I have little or no direct influence on how anyone but me personally spends money. (Away from home, I do work with Sun systems, but have negligible influence on spending, and would regard anything there as having to serve only my employer's interests anyway, so that's off the table.) At most, I might give a relative a few hundred bucks to buy and hold some stock. I'm not averse to parting with up to low three digits of $ (US) of my own money for something that's of at least nominal use to me, nor with up to low to almost mid four digits for something I could really use. Not that I expect that alone to amount to anything in the context of multi-billion dollar deals. So what can I do to put this puppy to sleep? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
