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

a)
Every customer who is currently licensed for os/390 on a 9672, 2064 
2066 or alike machine, is can also run under hercules on that same 
machine.

b)
http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/cp31064/SI2BK.HTML




--- In hercules-advocacy-F5Bj5G+ccuY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "commanonce" 
<philp@xxxx> wrote:
> > 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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