RE: Application development tools (was: no subject)

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Buck,

I can remember in the S/36 days when IBM was going to drop POP.  A large
outcry of anything short of death threats ensued.  IBM claimed that there
was little to no orders for it.  They were right, it was all being
pirated.  The trade rags encouraged people to pay for their copies, (I
know of one company that anted up pronto.)  IBM reinstituted support for
it.

However, with the security offered by licensing, and IBM's viciousness
with ptf's to deal with products like FAST/400, don't you think that the
pirating scheme has little chance of life?  Unless you think the newsgroup
can shake and dance faster.

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I truly believe that for the vast majority of iSeries developers, SEU has
more editing power than they will ever use.  I foresee SEU/PDM as the
number
one pirated software on iSeries in 2010, with it's own clandestine support
newsgroups for hacking new formats for new stuff like OPNQRYF.  Is this a
sour comment or a sober reflection on the state of iSeries development
organisations?  Only the gentle reader can decide.
  --buck
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Rob Berendt
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