Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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?
outstanding! this is the kind of love money can't buy.
--
Linda Kateley
Solaris Architect
612-807-6349
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