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   [$] IBM and the labors of TurboHercules http://lwn.net/Articles/382350/rss

   Tuesday, 06-Apr-10 23:23:52 UTC from api
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     Corbet w/ great summary of IBM mess @lwnnet: ur1.ca/tspd Still sick to my stomach at Apple-style "can only run our software on our hardware"

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 00:45:40 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     I was thinking last night how bad proprietary licenses get. Idea of "our software only on our hardware" is disgusting. Blog at: ur1.ca/tvy3

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 12:12:02 UTC
   • x1101 Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn agreed, thats yet another thing I hate, hence posting http://ur1.ca/t42r

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 12:16:40 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @fontana, I think it's more than mere lawyer narowmindedness, given that "our software only on our hardware" clauses are actively enforced.

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 14:24:53 UTC
   • Yuhong Bao Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Well, it has a long history. I have a blog article about it: http://yuhong386.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!57E2793D0C53276F!164.entry

     Sunday, 20-Jun-10 19:59:15 UTC
   • Yuhong Bao Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Yea, a big topic in the IBM antitrust lawsuit was PCM manufacturers fighting with IBM to allow IBM software to run on their hardware.

     Sunday, 20-Jun-10 20:02:17 UTC
   • Yuhong Bao Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn If you think undocumented APIs are bad enough, IBM mainframes has undocumented *CPU instructions* used in it's own OSes like z/OS.

     Sunday, 20-Jun-10 20:14:21 UTC
   • Yuhong Bao Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg38347.html

     Sunday, 20-Jun-10 20:15:04 UTC
   • Dmitrijs Ledkovs

     @lwnnet Well what about Xbox, Playstation, Wii, some mobile phones????

     Friday, 30-Jul-10 14:27:14 UTC