Thank you Jay

Jay, thanks for joining the discussion on Groklaw.  There was a lot of 
misinformation on the site and you are clarifying a lot of things.  
There still seems to be confusion relating to the relationship of the 
Hercules project to TurboHercules SAS, although some are starting to get 
it.  There are really five stakeholders involved in the issues, 
potential (IBM's potential to claim patent infringement) and real (the 
TurboHercules SAS complaint with the EU):

    * Hercules project developers
    * TurboHercules SAS
    * IBM and
    * IBM customers that license IBM software and
    * Users of Hercules that can legitimately use the software they are
      running with Hercules.

If your role is in explaining and defending the Hercules project 
developers (the project itself does not have legal standing, only the 
people who contribute do), then any way that the project (really 
developers) can be separated from TurboHercules SAS is desirable.   I 
understand your perspective that this is really impossible.  But who 
ever said logic applied to legalities?

Harold Grovesteen







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