Hercules (IBM emulator) under threat?

Julian Wolfe julian at twinax.org
Wed Apr 7 07:35:35 CDT 2010


Not surprising.  It's another typical case of a company trying to profit
from another's turning the other cheek in good faith toward the hobbyists.

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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/ibm-breaks-oss-patent-pr
omise-targets-mainframe-emulator.ars

It sounds like they're going after someone selling services (and running
IBM software) rather than the emu itself at the moment.

Antonio






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