Re: v5r1 license key -- MIDRANGE-L

check the ibm partnerworld pgm - software licenses for developrs
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@G1.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: RE: v5r1 license key


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> Unfortunately, I'm not at IBM anymore.
>
> I'll forward this exchange to Anne and let's see what happens!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walden H. Leverich [mailto:WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:22 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: v5r1 license key
>
>
> >From: Metz, Zak [mailto:Zak_Metz@G1.com]
> >I've been working on it since IBM Rochester hired me out of high school
11
> years ago.
>
> Just sneak a license code out of the big blue buildings! <G>
>
> Seriously though, have you spoken with Anne Lucas? I know I'm putting
words
> in her mouth, but I can't believe something couldn't be worked out in
> exchange for you being a reference site for iSeries web sites. After all
you
> have the hardware so we're talking about the cost of pressing a CD. Hell,
> you even have the CD, all we're talking about is the cost of generating a
> license key.
>
> -Walden
>
>
>
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> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metz, Zak [mailto:Zak_Metz@G1.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 15:17
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: v5r1 license key
>
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> I'm not new to the 400, in fact, I've been working on it since IBM
Rochester
> hired me out of high school 11 years ago.
>
> The main reason I bought a "home" AS/400 is to run my website
> (www.distortion.us). I consider it a hobby because: it consumes huge
amounts
> of my time, I make no money off of it, and I never expect to make money
off
> of it, I just do it because I enjoy it and it gives me a chance to try out
> things I don't have the opportunity to try at work (in particular,
Net.Data
> and SQL).
>
> I bought the system (a 510-2143) because it was cheap ($1500 on eBay +
$1000
> in recent hardware upgrades to max it out), I know it inside and out, and
I
> believe that it is the right system for me to run a website on. What I
> didn't realize is that IBM would ask me to pay huge amounts of money to
> legally run this hobby system.
>
> I'd like to pay IBM a fair amount for the software, but I cannot pay the
> unreasonably huge amounts they demand regardless of how the system is
being
> used, or how old/slow the system is. I'd even be happy to pay for an old
> release if the price was right, but IBM withdraws instead of discounting.
>
> My girlfriend has an idea for an actual business we could run on it, and
if
> that ever comes to fruition, I will pay IBM for use of the software.
> Meanwhile, I can live with myself, and with scratching every sixty days.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lou Schmaus [mailto:lschmaus@link400.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: v5r1 license key
>
>
> Zak,
>
> Are you a college student, trying to learn the iSeries, or just
> independently wealthy with a lot of leisure time on your hands?
>
> I'm not trying to be sarcastic(OK, maybe just a little sarcastic ;-) ),
but
> you don't generally find someone who bought/leased an iSeries "just for
> fun". The AS/400-iSeries line was designed as a machine to run business
> software, or as a development platform to produce business software. I'm
> sure nearly everyone on this list is either an employee in the MIS
> department of a company that uses the iSeries to run all or part of their
> business, or developers who sell/support business software for the
iSeries.
> You're not gonna find a lot of "hobbyists" here. I'm not even sure what a
> iSeries hobbyist would do with the machine.
>
> Anyway, back to your original question, can you keep reloading the O/S
every
> 70 days with a scratch install? The answer is, I believe, yes. I'm sure Al
> or some of the other experts here who know much more than me can give you
a
> definitive answer, but most likely it would work. As for the ethical
> questions of running non-licensed software, and where a "hobbyist" would
get
> the CD's to run this non-licensed software, that I think we should take to
> the Non-tech list.
>
>
> Lou Schmaus
> MIS Director
> Apparel Distribution, Inc.
> lou@appareld.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
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> Behalf Of Metz, Zak
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: v5r1 license key
>
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> Yes, I am. Yes. None. No, I won't.
>
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