Re: Re: News - Commercial Version of Hercules - Turbo Hercules

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-promise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars

In this article there is a link to Florian Mueller's blog entry that has 
posted the non-exhaustibe list of patents.

Harold Grovesteen

kerravon86 wrote:

>  
>
> --- In [email protected] 
> <mailto:hercules-advocacy%40yahoogroups.com>, Mike Schwab 
> <Mike.A.Schwab@...> wrote:
> >
> > How about, when they license z/OS to a customer, they add a 5%
> > surcharge for the IBM patents used by the emulator to be paid to the
> > patent holders?
>
> Sorry, what is the nature of the patents allegedly
> being violated? How do Fujitsu etc manage to make
> compatible machines if there are paents involved?
> Do they have to pay patent fees to IBM for that?
> If so, it's just a matter of isolating such
> patents and adding them to the cost of TurboHercules
> when making sales? It can even be itemized in the
> bills.
>
> And when is the last of these patents due to expire?
>
> And I assume that anything related to the S/370
> architecture has long ago expired.
>
> And can Hercules be reworked to avoid the alleged
> patent infringement while still running z/OS?
>
> BFN. Paul.
>
> 



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