> It's not like there wouldn't be some market for a machine that could emulate an IBM i in jurisdictions where requiring IBM hardware to run the OS is illegal.

> It's not like there wouldn't be some market for a machine that could emulate an IBM i in jurisdictions where requiring IBM hardware to run the OS is illegal. From a business perspective, in most major markets, too much risk of being sued by IBM. There are some countries in which you don’t have to worry about that - but those countries have few or no IBM i systems, so are likely too small a market to make it worthwhile I’m sure some hobbyist somewhere will build an IBM i emulator eventually - IBM probably wouldn’t bother suing a hobby project, even if the law was on their side. But it is a pretty niche thing, so the intersection of sufficient skills and sufficient interest is likely to be quite small - that eventually may take a long time. I myself think about it sometimes, but I doubt I’d ever do it - don’t have the time, other things I’d rather work on, don’t have any actual IBM i hardware and I think you’d really need that for reverse engineering