Re: Grumble Re: 515 and 525 user licensing thread

I respectfully disagree. David can clobber me if required but discussions about i5 pricing, licensing, etc DO fit here. They go to the heard of the platform. If you disagree, which of the midrange lists would you think this discussion best fits on?

And if you don't believe that IBM pays attention to what happens on this list you would be wrong. Do they make corporate decisions based on out rants and ramblings? Of course not. But the members of this group constitute a valuable bank of opinion about System i and you can be sure that IBM pays attention to what is said here.

- Larry

Darrell A Martin wrote:

Hi:

Midrange-L is not my list to run. However, I feel the same way about interminable discussions on this "Technical Discussion" list of:

- why IBM's licensing is (stupid, justified, exquisite)
- how to make sense of it

as I do about interminable discussions on this list about
- why Microsoft's control over the small computer systems world is (evil, unavoidable, exquisite)
- how to use Linux, or Palm OS, or DR-DOS, to overcome it.

Anyone who thinks that IBM's key marketing decision-makers read this list, raise your hand. OK, I see a few hands. Now, anyone who thinks they make significant decisions based on what is said on this list, raise all three hands. Not you, Qxrtqaaqlmrx -- besides, those aren't hands.

Darrell

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