RE: posting styles and licensing

Peter,

   Remember when we talk patents, that they are national things and that
particular patent provides no protection in the country I live in. I also
cannot find an equivalent UK patent, which is no surprise given the status
of software patents in the UK. 
  
I also note that the product is used in many Europe and Russia and also note
thet we only have a US patent.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter D. Ward [mailto:pdw-8vCV/[email protected]]
> Sent: 12 October 2003 15:47
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hercules-advocacy]posting styles and licensing
> 
> Sam,
> 
> Go to the ISX web page you cite and look at their patent (6,530,078).  I
> don't think the case for Hercules running on IBM hardware  is
> strengthened by referring to a piece of emulation software,  the patent
> to which  references a number of recent IBM patents, which are probably
> licensed for use within the ISX product.
> 
> PDW
> 
> 
> 
> Sam Knutson wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >At 05:03 PM 10/11/2003, PDW wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I believe the same analysis would be true for
> >>Hercules, in which case your implication that running Herc on a 9672 is
> >>some sort of safe harbor is probably incorrect.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I was lucky enough to speak to Dr. Aleksandr Shmid about ISX
> >http://www.iissolutions.com at
> >a SHARE conference. It is a real and impressive technology allowing older
> >(and newer) workloads to be run in virtual machines on MVS without IBM
> VM.
> >In his comments and reading the companies web site I am not led to
> believe
> >that this (existing licenses for the box would be invalid for images
> >running in virtual machines) was the case.  We did not specifically
> discuss
> >licensing or intellectual property this is just my impression based on
> the
> >general information and the lack of any of these issues being mentioned
> as
> >a concern.
> >
> >Hercules running on a real IBM mainframe would have the same issues if
> any
> >existed as ISX I think.
> >It is at least an interesting scenario for comparison.
> >
> >
> >                 Best Regards,
> >
> >                         Sam Knutson
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> >
> >
> >
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