RE: File reorgs while file is in use - new in V5R3

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a known risk of doing business with IBM - they have the resources 
and can always pull the rug out. So, as an ISV, you hope to hit a window of 
opportunity, before IBM does what you are doing.

If you could prove that IBM reverse-engineered someone's product, you might 
have a case. A concept? Probably not, unless YOU have gone to the trouble 
to patent an idea, just as IBM has been doing for years.

JMHO
Vern

At 10:51 AM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
> Isn't that what Microsoft does?  If someone has a popular/useful product 
> they either buy the company, write their own and give it away, or it 
> appears in a future release of Windows.
>
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:39 AM
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> Subject: Re: File reorgs while file is in use - new in V5R3
>
> this brings up another point:  what impact will this have on the utilities
> guys and are they going to bring any legal issues to bear?
>
> Seems like IBM's taking alot of 3rd party functionality and making it base
> code in several platform arenas....