On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:01:52 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Peter, >There is another solution ... make PL/xxxx available especially to >students/enthusiasts/hobbyists. > does z Xplore achieve any of that?
>While doing that, provide an "amateur" version of z/OS for the same >crowd and allow *anyone* to run it on Hercules (or equivalent) on >Intel/AMD hardware. >It's not yet (but almost) too late to stop the Big Iron golden goose >from dying. >These 2 suggestions might cause a renewed interest for next generation >mainframers. > >(Unfortunately, however, it's 40 years too late to reverse the illogical >OCO policy.) > Is the rationale to thwart users who would seek support saying, "I made only a *little*change* in the source!" >On 2023-09-29 12:54, Peter Relson wrote: >> Regarding PL/X documentation, wouldn't sharing such information outside of >> IBM, in the absence of having some sort of license agreement, be "bad form" >> (or worse)? >> would it be undercutting some contractual agreements or exclusive licenses? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
