Hmm!!! Let us not split hairs.
For a commercial developer like me this is huge!!! I just spent the last
week trying to convince a major bank (who shall remain nameless) use Linux
as a development platform. They were extremely interested after seeing the
IBM announcement, specially considering what the same tools cost on the
Windows platform. For this bank, I can sort of estimate that the savings
will be in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Actually the IBM s/w sales rep
on site got really stroppy when he realised that they might go this way as
he misses out on his commission.
It is 'no charge' for development, but normal licensing fees apply for
deployment. Whatever terminology you use, I get a CD in my hands containing
s/w that I can use legally to develop, free.
-- Aravind
-----Original Message-----
From: Rev Simon Rumble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2000 22:14
To: Aravind Naidu
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] IBM s/w for Linux - Expensive
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Aravind Naidu wrote:
> Free developer's kit of IBM/Lotus s/w for Linux
>From the site:
"The IBM program consists of a not-for-resale, no charge application
developer's kit"
Note even they didn't say "free" but "no charge". This is not free
software.
(I know I know arguing semantics but it's important.)
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