On Friday, 10/06/2006 at 12:50 EST, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the fact that the original OS/360 and VM/370 were, like Linux, > "open source" with a lot of community involvement in their development. > Something that the z/... operating systems lack. I understand why, from > IBM's viewpoint, but I wish it were not so. "Just say NO! to OCO" <grin>
Old song. :-) After all these decades, z/VM still ships the source for nearly all of its modules. Only those modules that protect IBM intellectual property (sw & hw), along with a small number of modules whose source is not controlled by us and whose owners insist on it, are OCO. If we were "just" a software company, I think things would be a little different, but we package our software to protect both itself *and* the hardware. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
