But what good is PLX source if the PLX compileir is a national secret?
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU]On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:55 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Question re: Hercules
On Friday, 10/06/2006 at 12:50 EST, "McKown, John"
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> 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
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