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

> Its been 5 days without an answer so I thought I'd 
> re-up the questions.

I haven't seen any answers to the two very simple questions I've been 
asking:

a) Name a legal licensee.

b) Name the source of the z/SIE information.

The first one shouldn't be that hard, after all.  There are plenty of 
people getting help with running licensed software on the main 
Hercules-390 board - a couple using DB2 in the last couple of days, 
for instance.  Just email a few of them and get one to send a copy of 
their license agreement.

Of course, there's the vanishingly tiny chance that one or the other 
of the latest two are actually running DB2 illegally.  That would 
change things more than a little - DB2 is over in Janet Perna's happy 
little Data Management bunch, where IBM is supposedly pouring $630 
million into new tools.  With one of her own people openly claiming 
to be licensed for "all software on all platforms" she might find 
complaining about DB2 piracy herself a tad embarrassing.

The next escalation will be when someone posts looking for help with 
big-name ISV software like Adabas, ACF2, etc.  That could be when the 
ordure finally encounters the air-moving device.

Ever read a Computer Associates license agreement?

That will bring in the due diligence aspect of IBM's protection of 
critical assets like SIE - if an ISV makes a case that IBM's 
carelessness with, e.g., the z/SIE specifications has enabled the 
production of a piracy tool, we could be in for some real legal 
twisties.

I'm amazed to see SHARE tolerating - even perhaps encouraging - 
distribution of this stuff at its meetings.


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