Re: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think he express software they don't charge for, you jsut have to have
licensing for certain functionality on the AS/400 end, right?

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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!


> As far as charging goes, that's a good question.  After all, what parts of
> iSeries Access for Windows are no charge, and what part are chargeable
> items?
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> Rob Berendt
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> Even if they decided to support SuSE and Turbo, there are still dozens on
> Linux distros that they don't support.  Even if they made it work on every
> Linux, it still wouldn't work on the BSDs, Solaris, OS X, etc, etc.
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> I wish IBM would release these things as open source products!   Then,
> none of these compatibilty issues would be a problem.   What does it gain
> IBM to make their free software proprietary?   Why limit people if they're
> not going to make money on it anyway?
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> Or were they planning to charge for the Linux versions in the future?
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> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
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> > We hadn't tried on any other platform yet, that isn't good that they are
> > hard coding it. We where thinking they where developing it for all of
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> > supported distros (RedHat, Suse, and Turbo).
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