And what does "properly" mean in this context? The text clearly says that you
are not allowed to install or use the Program on all machines that implement the
64-bit z/Arch, just the ones that do it "properly". So it is of interest to
understand what is meant by the word. (Just academic to me, I am not a VM
user).

Gunnar


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Maynard" <jmaynard@...>
To: <hercules-advocacy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: [hercules-advocacy] Re: [hercules-390] Re: I'm downloading z/VM from
IBM...


> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:38:45AM -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:
> [about the z/VM trial edition:]
> > FWIW, there's an interesting bit in the license...but that belongs on
> > hercules-advocacy, not here.
>
> The license says, in part:
>
> z/VM Version 5 Release 3 Evaluation Edition operates on the IBM System
> z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC). The Program requires hardware that
> implements the IBM 64-bit z/Architecture in order to execute properly
> and therefore You are not authorized to install or use this Program on
> any machine that does not properly implement 64-bit z/Architecture.
>
> Note that it does not say that "you must run this Program only on a z10 EC".
> IBM is very, very good at making licenses say exactly what they want them to
> mean. To me, this means that the evaluation edition may be run on Hercules
> as long as Hercules properly implements the 64-bit z/Architecture.
> --
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