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Typical bureaucratic ancient organization mindset, methinks. The looming crisis of not having any new mainframe-trained people and/or COBOL coders is probably w
by Karunamon 5y ago
Typical bureaucratic ancient organization mindset, methinks. The looming crisis of not having any new mainframe-trained people and/or COBOL coders is probably what forced their hand into opening up even this far.
As to the extra steps, some further reading implies that the OS is tied to a hardware dongle (groan) and a boatload of papers and install media being physically sent to you.
- jmclnx 5y agoamazing, in this day and age you would think IBM would have a free emulator for use in a VM or a Linux Container. All they have to do is look at Motif/CDE. People were begging for Motif to be free for Linux in the 90s, now Motif is really "no more". Motif was finally released for Linux a few years ago but it is only used for nostalgia reasons. There are more examples like this, but you have IBM and Companies begging for new young workers. But saying you need to pay to use ot abide by crazy restrictions. If IBM keeps this up, their Cash Cow will follow Motif off the cliff.