Re: SXMACLIB

"IBM also gave it away free."

Well, not quite. If you remember, back when OS/VS2 was in its heyday, there
was only one machine that could run it. So, the question of copyright wasnt
really an issue...

But nonetheless, under the 1974 copyright law, software was covered as an
unpublished work because it was fixed.

Joe

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:27 AM 'Dave Wade' [email protected] [H390-MVS]
<[email protected]> wrote:

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> Joe,
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> IBM also gave it away free. Some of the folks who managed to order copies
> of MVS 3.8J also have letters confirming this. Thus me, you, Paul or
> whoever is free to do what they want with it.
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> Paul is free to pollute sys1.maclib if he wants. You are free to say you
> don’t think it’s a great idea.
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> Personally, I am with you. As the owner of a P390 who sometimes runs S/360
> and S/370 operating systems on it, I sometimes want to write pure code, so
> want programs that use extended op codes to fail to assemble.
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> Paul doesn’t provide a way for me to do that.
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> I also would like to be able to generate 31 bit code for use in MVS/ESA
> and VM/ESA, so again I want ONLY 31 bit macros.
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> Dave
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> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* 28 September 2019 03:25
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [H390-MVS] SXMACLIB
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> "on a free operating system."
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> 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.
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> Joe
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:19 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [H390-MVS] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> ---In [email protected], <joemonk64@...> wrote :
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> > His test procedure works because he doesn't pollute sys1.maclib.
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> His procedures will work on MVS/380 just
> fine, even though the SYS1.MACLIB has
> more stuff in it than z/OS.
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> > This his test procedure will run unchanged on both mvs and z/os.
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> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> > It is based on IBM code,
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> 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?
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> > shamelessly ripped off. At least somethings
> > should still be sacred.
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> What is sacred is being able to do this:
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> 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
> ..................
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> on a free operating system.
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> BFN. Paul.
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