RE: FAST400 and now FastACT: CFINT revealed

[Kurt Goolsbee <K.goolsbee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Leif,  The LIPI's that are offered throught PWD are only for the host server
data streams.  They don't have any good info about system internals.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:47 AM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: FAST400 and now FastACT: CFINT revealed
>
> From: Bruce Vining <bvining@us.ibm.com>
> > They are offered through the Partner World Development program.  You can
> > contact that group at pwd@us.ibm.com and after the appropriate
> agreements
> > are in place you will be sent the desired LIPI documentation.
> >
>
> Bruce, I tried that, but the "agreements" you are talking about include
> a nasty NDA. Since my customers are getting the source code for
> what I write for them, this road is closed to me. What happened to
> IBM's commitment to "open source"? I can't open source anything
> using a LIPI, and I can't even use LIPI in a closed source project
> where the customer wants the source code.
>
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