John,
It isn't just the $900 per year for the ADCD OS license. You can’t legally get
ADCD without the ~$5K yearly cost of the zPDT dongle and Linux hardware
emulation layer to run the OS's. That's the real kicker.
OTOH I wouldn't be surprised if bad-actor state security organizations (or US
security skunkworks organizations for that matter) haven't already
reverse-engineered the zPDT dongle for their own nefarious uses. Paranoid?
Maybe, maybe not.
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
John McKown
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:54 AM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com>
wrote:
> When I bought my Yamaha piano in 1989, I heard a story that Yamaha had
> been supplying free pianos to universities for years. It was more
> than them just being nice, they knew that someone practicing every day
> on the school grand piano would likely go on to buy one, or be the
> decision maker for an orchestra, night club, or whatever. I always
> thought that was super smart of them. What I always thought was
> rather dumb, is that IBM doesn't do similar with educational use of
> all their software. And that's just copied bits ... no wood, metal,
> delivery, tuning, etc.
>
>
I want an _affordable_ version of zPDT for _myself_ as a _hobbiest_. The
current zPDT seems to be for "home workers" of an ISV or maybe office workers
for a 2-3 person operation (IDK). I just looked and it is $900/yr U.S. . I can
afford that. But I'm not an ISV. And I don't want to "bother"
with whatever it takes to convince IBM that I am an ISV. Mainly because I'd be
lying through my teeth. And I'm not a scum politician, so I'm adverse to doing
that. {yeah, I'm being tacky}
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