24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
9:20 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:55:23 -0500, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:29 AM, "Bob Bradlee"
<caveguy at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Fair use should
> premit a collector to play with it for their personal use.
I don't know where you got this idea. There is no
such thing as Fair Use as far as software licenses are
concerned. IBM has gone
after people for running zOS on the Hercules emulator, they will definitely go after
someone with real hardware. Especially a current machine. This is not some ancient retiree
we are discussing,
this is a z900 that you can still buy brand new.
>
Then what we have here is a full set of
spare parts capable of running self diagnostics, and not a running System
as implied.
The running of zOS on the Hercules emulator was an easy call, it was a cloned enviroment,
an easy copy or
distribution violation, Just not the definitive case to prove there is no fairuse of
software.
I know all to well how sensitive IBM is to what is and is not fairuse when it comes to
using their logos.
It will be interesting to see if it sells ...
It may have just become collectible and be tracked as the first of its kind outside
IBM's control to be sold as
running hardware on eBay. One never knows what will make an IBMcollectable :)
The other Bob