[hercules-390] Re: posting styles and licensing

--- In [email protected],
 "Peter D. Ward" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jay Maynard wrote:
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>>If someone admits they're running the struff
>>unlicensed, then I doubt they'll get any help,
>>as the membership of the list has been quite
>>adequately sensitized to the issue. 
>Steve Arnet's earlier post of two days ago:
>"As for running illegal code on the Hercules
>platform, I am 100% guilty and am not afraid
>to admit such."
>Steve Arnet's latest post an hour ago:  "Greg
>responded with a tip for tracking down my
>OS/390 2.8 problem(thanks Greg!) and I am
>currently trying to do just that.
>Seems your certainty is misplaced there too...
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    I assume that Greg supplied help before
 Steve posted that he was running illegally.
 I don't believe that Greg knowingly assisted
 with illegal activity. 

    At this point, IBM should track down Steve's
 employer and sue the employer for supplying the
 software.  If they can sue Steve, they should
 do that too.  It would be nice if IBM could
 post the actions that they take, but they won't
 be able to.

    Peter, you keep missing one point.  While
 IBM does not issue personal licenses to run
 OS/390 under Hercules under Windows, I do have
 an OS/390 license for my 9672 and IBM does not
 prevent me from running Hercules on it.  Some
 IBM employees have also used Hercules.  Some
 apparently with IBM's blessing, some apparently
 without IBM's blessing.  Both are legal.
 If my 9672 melts down, I will call IBM and
 declare a disaster and run on anything that I
 can run on.  When I replace the 9672 with a
 Flex box, and the Flex dongle melts down, I
 will call IBM and declare a disaster and run
 on anything that I can run on.

    Under some conditions, people can run OS/390
 under Hercules and need to post questions and
 report problems.  We should not refuse to assist
 all users.  When someone violates an IBM license,
 let IBM take care of it.


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