“To ensure you steer clear of any legal risk of reverse engineering, it should
be performed only to the extent of allowances, such as for accessing ideas,
facts, and functional concepts contained in the product.”
I doubt MicroFocus received allowances from IBM. Especially considering they
were
If you re-implement the code using only the published API without
referencing the old code was ruled legal in the Google
re-implementation of JAVA. Google experienced problems due to
incompatibilities between versions of Java, so this was their fix.
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:47, Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal.
>
That's a remarkably broad and unsubstantiated claim.
Tony H.
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Ah... the "everybody does it" defense.
On 11/23/2022 4:06 AM, W Mainframe wrote:
IBM is only IBM...There are lot of CICS clone running in our world... :)This is
not a news... I have a CICS clone running in a 100% JVM... Gnucobol, BMS
supporting, Java transactions and a simulated VSAM under
IBM is only IBM...There are lot of CICS clone running in our world... :)This is
not a news... I have a CICS clone running in a 100% JVM... Gnucobol, BMS
supporting, Java transactions and a simulated VSAM under Mysql... works fine...
My toy!
lol
Dan
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My guess is it's more like how Compaq managed to create their PC
compatible ROM in the 80's.
On 11/22/2022 4:46 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal.
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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 11:23 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
Not sure
Explains a recent MicroFocus hire who used to work at IBM & was a CICS expert
there.
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:46 PM, Bill Johnson
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal.
>
> Sent from Yahoo
Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal.
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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 11:23 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
Not sure that this is a winnable lawsuit though.
The architecture of a file (and the data therein) that is only needed to
run a product is not
Not sure that this is a winnable lawsuit though.
The architecture of a file (and the data therein) that is only needed to
run a product is not copyright protected. So copying the WSBIND
file doesnt necessarily amount to a copyright violation.
Joe
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 10:10 AM Bob T Roller <
Not surprised. They lost their preferred vendor status with IBM a year or so
ago. Because of their tie up with Amazon.
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 9:25 AM, Mark Regan wrote:
> https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/22/ibm_sues_micro_focus_for
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
More like third and fourth… TurboHercules and PSI were first… TurboHercules for
violating IBM patents that they put into the public domain. PSI … no comment,
they ended up buying them and use their tech in zPDT…
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For IBM-MAIN
Long, Long time ago in a valley far, far away - Sun Microsystems was using an
Amdahl processor running MVS for all virtually everything to run the business.
One of the C-level people decided that it was ridiculous to be on an Amdahl
instead of their own product. After many months of
First they sued LZlabs, now Micro Focus. WHo's next?
ITschak
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interesting, my last gig was working for a large freight company that
spent many years and tons of $$$'s to replace their mainframes with MFES
no POC was done before spending all this money on a solution that could
not provide this company a stable environment.
thanks Mark
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Regards,
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