On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:56:59 -0400, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:
> I feel like this answer is maybe sort of orthogonal to your points, but maybe > not? Correct. Can you give another one? > A startup? Thinking about Z? Be serious. They're all cloud/Linux etc., > because "Free". > The percentage of startups who would even consider the mainframe is close to > zero. > That doesn't make them right, but I'm confident in that assertion. My question is what SHOULD be happening. And thus using YOU personally as the startup owner. > This is a non-trivial cost to us, but of course is invisible to > management despite our best efforts. Exactly. Theoretically you should be able to make these clowns go bankrupt. > There's also still a huge "IBM is evil" attitude out there. Sure. I'm not even disputing that monopolies are bad. But the solution isn't to start a circus. > And since Linux is where most folks start tinkering these days, That's a cultural problem, and no technical barrier to solving that either. > And yes, the customers are also clowns! Sure. Your startup may be restricted to non-clown members of the public. You advertise "sure, we're more expensive. That's because when you ring up with a problem, we solve it, rather than just telling you that no-one else has reported that problem, try again another day". That's literally the state of the world today. > Nope, the boat has left the harbor. Not necessarily. Remember that software security thing that was released a year ago or whatever that was bricking machines worldwide? By accident. And someone here mentioned - if that's what an accident can do - what would a deliberate attack look like? I would hope that some non-clowns would have woken up and realized that this is not the way the world should be. Is there a problem dividing the world into clowns and non-clowns? Some non-clowns probably lack the knowledge though. But that should be a relatively simple thing to explain. What on earth did you expect for free? BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
