On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:30:08 -0800, Ron Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>Don, > >Hang on. The Blue Hammers are only $40 if you hammer 1000 nails a day. If >you start hammering 2000 nails a day the guy from the hardware store knocks >on your door and asks for another $40. He doesn't care how many nails you >hammer a day with the red hammer. > >I recall this analogy being explained with spanners and cars. You buy a >spanner for you Toyota, and everyone time you buy a better, faster car you >have to pay the hardware store a few dollars more to use the spanner on it. >But it's still the same freaking spanner! > I think this analogy explains IBM's position (I assume it is quotes from the law suit): http://go.techtarget.com/r/10797978/662517 IBM has now shot back, however, saying that the issue is really about Neons attempted hijacking of IBMs intellectual property. IBM compared what Neon is doing to a crafty technician who promises, for a fee, to rig your cable box so you can watch premium TV channels without paying the cable company. Even if it could be accomplished technically, it is neither lawful nor ethical. -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
