Re: Seeking IBM partner for contacting IBM regarding publishing of documentation

It's a real shame that IBM behaves like this with its business partners.
Every IBMi developer is a merchant of their systems and their products.
It's kind of rude for them to do that. In my country we have a saying that
goes like this: the devil pays badly to those who serve him well. Although
it is our daily bread, it does not mean that we should not criticize these
types of limitations that they impose. It is true that copyright exists,
but that should not be a weapon to attack its loyal followers who are
lovers of their technology and who closely follow each improvement they
make. They should be nicer to all of us. And who better than us that we
advertise them so that they sell more?

WADR

Javier Sanchez

El lun, 3 abr 2023 a las 15:20, Roger Harman (<roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:

I see zero chance of IBM setting a precedent to allow what Patrick is
trying to accomplish.

Wishes/good intentions of a hobbyist versus intellectual property concerns
of a multi-billion-dollar corporation?
I think we know who wins this one.


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Götz Hoffart
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Subject: Re: Seeking IBM partner for contacting IBM regarding publishing
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On 3 Apr 2023, at 21:32, Patrik Schindler wrote:

It's the Humans with Law Degrees that are the problem. they make (and
break) said rules.

Yes, you've nailed it. And if I could get one of these to hear me out,

he can decide if and how to break those ruled in my favor. ;-)

You'd need to climb very high up the ladder within a large corp to find
some_one_ with that power. Someone in the middle of the org has to weigh
what to use own resources for, and which battles to fight (upstream). As
there is little gain for them, the choice may very well be "I won't touch
this" or "not worth arguing". It would be different, if you'd be a section
509 org, or a honorable club (CHM or similar); such things would make it a
bit easier to succeed.

Been there, done that (*)

(And I disagree with the "it's the lawyers fault only!". The problem is
IMHO a specific mindset. You'll find this with lawyers, but also with IT
-and other- folks.)

Regards
Götz
(*) I'm neither within IBM, nor a lawyer. But in a S&P500/NASDAQ100 corp.
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