On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2016 14:53:09 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >On 3/18/2016 6:30 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: > >> A google-translate of part of the final article in French from the > media section of the LzLabs website. > >> > >> "Lzlabs technology leans on a container system which embeds the > mainframe application and data. The application and its lines of code are > included and the native format of the original data is kept - all without > recompilation. "The only thing we are changing is the APIs. We take the old > APIs, and replace them with ours, "said Thilo Rockmann." > > > >This is what happens when a billionaire loses a court battle with IBM. > > Can we expect this product to be the subject of a court battle if it > is successful in doing what it claims? ​Especially considering the on-going legal battle between Oracle and Google about the Java API specification itself being copyrighted so that Google cannot legally create a separate product​ (Android) which implements a "clean room" implementation of a "work alike" which mirrors the Java API. To write Android code, you basically write and compile Java into Java byte code. The Java byte code is the translated from JVM byte code to ART (earlier Dalvik) byte code. The ART virtual machine runs this, different, byte code. But the "calling sequence", i.e. API, is the same as the "calling sequence" (API) that the JVM uses. Which Oracle insists is illegal copying. What LzLabs appears to have done is write two things: 1) an instruction emulator for zArch "problem state" instructions and 2) an alternate LE implementation which uses the identical API as z/OS LE. This latter, if Oracle wins, will most totally kill the LzLabs product. Um, assuming that IBM as copyrighted the API. If, indeed, such a thing can even be copyrighted. That is what is being fought over. The above reminds me of the "UNIX wars" where ever UNIX vendor decided to "extend" UNIX in such a way as to cause "vendor lock in". There are many reasons why I like FOSS and the FSF. I understand wanting to make money. > What are the medium to long > term implications for the z series? The i and p series? > > Clark Morris > >He strikes back! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
