Re: Is this really new ?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   >I think it would be neat to have access at run time to ILE's resolving of
>   the procedures being called.
>
>   We have that now with library lists.  Could you expound more on what you
>   are looking for outside of what library lists provide?

duplicating a srvpgm to change the behavior of a single exported
procedure sounds lile problems waiting to happen. What about when the
original srvpgm is recreated?

>   >The only way we get the improvements ( and enthusiasm ) needed to make
>   the system competitive is if it is open sourced.
>
>   Oh, is that why Microsoft proprietary closed-source products work so well
>   together and are the best selling development environment ever to exist in
>   the history of computing

I did not write that a closed source system cant be competitive. It is
when the system owner slashes investment that you get discouraged
users and a feature set that does not match the competition.