On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote:
> You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the > one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about > hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS > needs a serious facelift to include tools and utilities commonly available > on other *nix variants like Linux and MacOS and Cygwin. > IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a "POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't have any real equivalent to. I will give them a pass on porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) because that would negatively impact their own compiler products. They especially need to replace their inferior versions of: grep; sed; find; awk. > > Matt Hogstrom > m...@hogstrom.org > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > > Perfer et obdura: dolor hic tibi proderit olim. > > Be patient and endure: some day, this pain will be useful to you. > > -- I just burned 2000 calories! That's the last time I'll nap with brownies in the oven. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
