I hate to say it, but I hope IBM loses this legal fight. Why?
Come one, be serious. How many of us here would LOVE to have our own mainframe sitting on a spare laptop, just for bragging rights alone? "Well, I just finished up this work on my mainframe, and..." is an ego boost equivalent to getting an office visit from the Grace Hopper Cheerleaders! I know just having a small test platform like that would be a fantastic addition to the "cool factor" that a Supreme Nerd God like myself (as verified by http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php ) needs for street cred with the plastic pocket protector crowd! Come on, IBM! Make that software available to IBM-MAIN'ers, RACF-L'ers, etc., for $100 a pop, and you'll be able to make at least $20 profit on each copy. That'll help your bottom line (not to mention your pre-Christmas sales, which I know you depend on for 70% of your annual income) and make several dozen tech-heads like myself very, very happy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
