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

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:44 PM, kerravon86 <kerravon86-/[email protected]> wrote:
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> The software industry as a whole has a lot to
> answer for. Nearly as much as Korean dictators
> starving their population. These Europeans like
> to act all high and mighty about how they are
> independent from the US and have their own
> policy (e.g. supporting Middle Eastern dictators
> instead of toppling them). So how about they use
> that independence to do something good for a
> change and declare these patents null and void?
>
> Not sure what happens after that though. Force
> IBM to sell z/OS at what price? And what if they
> still refuse or charge something outlandish to
> effectively refuse? Drop copyright protection
> for z/OS?
>
I think Turbo Hercules is asking for z/OS to be licensed to customers
at roughly the same $/MSU rate as the lowest mainframe rate.  A single
processor z/800 would be about 100 MIPS, z/10 about 200 MIPS, Hercules
about 50 MIPS per thread.

> Honestly, if there's ever been a time for
> government to get involved in industry, it's to
> break monopolies. There should be an international
> governmental project to provide public domain
> replacements for the operating systems that have
> managed to establish monopolies, and put the
> price of everything on the planet up as a result.
>
> Why do we have an international space station but
> not an international operating system?
>
> BFN.  Paul.

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Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
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