Re: Re: slanted article "Inside System Storage -- by Tony Pearson"

For the record, here is the response I made as a comment to Tony Pearson's blog
posting "the pot and the kettle" in 2008:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/InsideSystemStorage/entry/the_pot_and_the_kettle?lang=en

RB>Tony, another thing that's "badly wrong" :-) is your statement
RB>that these vendors were "unwilling to pay IBM for the z/OS
RB>operating system". Neither of the vendors concerned has shown
RB>themselves to be in any way unwilling to pay IBM. In fact one
RB>of the vendors (PSI) is currently taking legal action to force
RB>IBM to accept license fees to permit z/OS to run on the PSI
RB>platform, while IBM is adopting the anti-competitive position
RB>that they will not license z/OS on any non-IBM platform.
RB>
RB>Here's the story:
RB>http://www.tech-news.com/another/ap200704b.html
RB>
RB>If you wanted to illustrate IBM's openness, you could hardly
RB>have chosen a worse example, in my opinion :-)
RB>
RB>--Roger Bowler

Tony later deleted this comment, along with his original remarks, but
his reply to my comment remains in the blog:

Tony>Roger,I was not aware of the on-going litigation. I have
Tony>removed the statements with an update above.-- Tony

The "update above" refers to his replacement of this:

Tony>Since IBM published the interfaces, some clever x86-server
Tony>vendors tried to sell IBM-compatible systems based on the
Tony>[Hercules] emulator, but were closed down because they were
Tony>unwilling to pay IBM for the z/OS operating system.

by this:

Tony>Update: Due to legal reasons, the statements referring to
Tony>Hercules and other S/390 emulators havebeen removed.

Just for the record.

--
Regards,
Roger Bowler
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rbowler
Hercules "I can't believe it's not a mainframe!"