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>> if I was to release some library it would be a matter of seconds to
>> generate the documentation file.
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> And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have textbooks about libraries.
That and the fact that, like I said, sometimes you need an overview to
describe how the pieces fit together before you can properly understand
the nitty gritty of individual function descriptions and so on.
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>> Really? Wow. I thought people stopped making and using mainframes
>> about 20 years ago...
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> Actually, they're suing open source mainframe emulator authors lately.
OK, wow. I had no idea that such things even existed. o_O
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Invisible wrote:
>>> if I was to release some library it would be a matter of seconds to
>>> generate the documentation file.
>>
>> And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have textbooks about libraries.
>
> That and the fact that, like I said, sometimes you need an overview to
> describe how the pieces fit together before you can properly understand
> the nitty gritty of individual function descriptions and so on.
That's exactly what I was referring to. :-)
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Actually, they're suing open source mainframe emulator authors lately.
On what grounds?
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Actually, they're suing open source mainframe emulator authors lately.
>
> On what grounds?
"You're losing us money", I would imagine...
(No, that's [apparently] not a criminal offence. But if you have enough
money, you can construct an argument that *is* a valid legal charge.
After all, matters of law are always decided by money, not rules.)
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Actually, they're suing open source mainframe emulator authors lately.
>
> On what grounds?
Patents on the instruction sets. TurboHercules is the particular company
I'm thinking of. Of course, the europeans are slapping IBM around with
anti-trust suits for not letting IBM zOS run on anything but the mainframes
it was written for.
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Actually, they're suing open source mainframe emulator authors lately.
> >
> > On what grounds?
> "You're losing us money", I would imagine...
> (No, that's [apparently] not a criminal offence. But if you have enough
> money, you can construct an argument that *is* a valid legal charge.
> After all, matters of law are always decided by money, not rules.)
It sounds like the stalinist principle: "We have the culprit. Now we only
have to come up with the crime."
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On 04/22/10 11:12, Warp wrote:
> It sounds like the stalinist principle: "We have the culprit. Now we only
> have to come up with the crime."
Yup. Never happened before Stalin came around.
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Darren New wrote:
> Of course, the europeans are slapping IBM
> around with anti-trust suits for not letting IBM zOS run on anything but
> the mainframes it was written for.
Wuh? How does *that* work?! o_O
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
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>> Of course, the europeans are slapping IBM around with anti-trust suits
>> for not letting IBM zOS run on anything but the mainframes it was
>> written for.
>
> Wuh? How does *that* work?! o_O
>
GIYF.
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