Re: Peter still in misery (was: Jan doesn't want Peter to know (was: Peter wants

> 1 - What is a PC Server S/390 Preconfigured System for OS/390?
> Is it PWD or AD/CD? I presume its only for a P/390 or R/390 system?

A _current_ PWD (Partnerworld in Development) system consist of a new 
IBM system preloaded with the AD/CD - so the terms are to some extent 
equivalent.

The PC Server S/390 (Announcement Letter 197-004) is not primarily a 
development-only system.
 
> 2 - Copyright laws. Interesting article in last months ACM 
> Communications primarily regarding copyright in regards to 
> webcaching (particularly where Google is concerned.) Interesting 
> reading.

Indeed.  It's a bit of an issue for a number of companies at 
present.  A little while back it was possible to search for Gartner 
articles - you got hits from a South African University who had all 
the stuff online but password-protected - any attempt to click on the 
URL Google gave you resulted in a password challenge.  But if you 
clicked on the 'Cached' link on Google's search page, it delivered 
the results.  Google was clearly violating Gartner's copyright.
 
> 3 - Reverse engineering. Legal or not? Apparently so in
> some places.

It is in the EU, for the purpose of determining interfaces, and I 
believe it should be.  Amdahl reverse-engineered the interfaces to 
IBM's CFCC.  That has NOTHING to do with what we're talking about 
here - reverse engineering to re-implement a complete product is and 
should remain illegal.


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