--- In hercules-advocacy@yahoogroups.com,
"Peter D. Ward" <pdw@m...> wrote:
> Jay Maynard wrote:
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>>If someone admits they're running the struff
>>unlicensed, then I doubt they'll get any help,
>>as the membership of the list has been quite
>>adequately sensitized to the issue.
>Steve Arnet's earlier post of two days ago:
>"As for running illegal code on the Hercules
>platform, I am 100% guilty and am not afraid
>to admit such."
>Steve Arnet's latest post an hour ago: "Greg
>responded with a tip for tracking down my
>OS/390 2.8 problem(thanks Greg!) and I am
>currently trying to do just that.
>Seems your certainty is misplaced there too...
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I assume that Greg supplied help before
Steve posted that he was running illegally.
I don't believe that Greg knowingly assisted
with illegal activity.

At this point, IBM should track down Steve's
employer and sue the employer for supplying the
software. If they can sue Steve, they should
do that too. It would be nice if IBM could
post the actions that they take, but they won't
be able to.

Peter, you keep missing one point. While
IBM does not issue personal licenses to run
OS/390 under Hercules under Windows, I do have
an OS/390 license for my 9672 and IBM does not
prevent me from running Hercules on it. Some
IBM employees have also used Hercules. Some
apparently with IBM's blessing, some apparently
without IBM's blessing. Both are legal.
If my 9672 melts down, I will call IBM and
declare a disaster and run on anything that I
can run on. When I replace the 9672 with a
Flex box, and the Flex dongle melts down, I
will call IBM and declare a disaster and run
on anything that I can run on.

Under some conditions, people can run OS/390
under Hercules and need to post questions and
report problems. We should not refuse to assist
all users. When someone violates an IBM license,
let IBM take care of it.