Stephen Y Odo wrote:
[...]
Also, IBM excludes all those students who would want to write programs
on the mainframe or just learn how. They can get a Windows or Linux
laptop for about $1.5K with all the software they need. The only way
they can do anything with z/OS is to get an account on somebody's
mainframe ... which is nearly impossible at our institution.
They can get a Linux box and start experimenting and learning without
having to write up a project proposal and getting approval to get access
to a system.
...or this persuades students to use Hercules and illegal copy of z/OS.
Like some IBMers do.
BTW: wouldn't it be simpler just to give z/OS *for free* to all the
hobbyists, students, maniacs ? Like few other OS vendors did.
Obviously with limitations for personal, non-commercial use, on
specified HW, etc.
Small developers would pay $xxxx yearly as today.
OK, I know. I would make z/OS *popular* which seems to be against IBM
policy.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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