Re: SXMACLIB

"on a free operating system."

Its not free. Its not yours to declare as free. 95% of it belongs to ibm.
They wrote it. They own it. It's their code. Not yours.

Joe

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:19 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> ---In [email protected], <joemonk64@...> wrote :
>
> > His test procedure works because he doesn't pollute sys1.maclib.
>
> His procedures will work on MVS/380 just
> fine, even though the SYS1.MACLIB has
> more stuff in it than z/OS.
>
> > This his test procedure will run unchanged on both mvs and z/os.
>
> No, if he wants to use the LG instruction,
> and he has added that to a non-standard
> library, then the assembly JCL, that uses
> that non-standard library, will fail on a
> standard z/OS system, and people will
> be wondering why on earth he has used
> a non-standard dataset when all his
> program does is an LG.
>
> >> MVS/380 is published by Jujitsu, not IBM,
> >> and Jujitsu thought it was easier to add
> >> "LG" etc to SYS1.MACLIB than to
> >> IFOX00, which is an internal implementation
> >> decision.
>
> > It is based on IBM code,
>
> And I saw mention that IBM originally developed
> their operating system using US government
> grants. What is wrong with basing a new
> operating system on top of existing work? Do
> you think I should instead have a "not
> invented here" philosophy?
>
> > shamelessly ripped off. At least somethings
> > should still be sacred.
>
> What is sacred is being able to do this:
>
> 09:06:43 r 100000000
> 09:06:43 R:100000000:K:00=01234567 89ABCDEF 00000000 00000000
> ....i...........
> 09:06:43 R:100000010:K:00=00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> ................
> 09:06:43 R:100000020:K:00=00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> ................
> 09:06:43 R:100000030:K:00=00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> ................
>
> on a free operating system.
>
> BFN. Paul.
> 
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