Yes, that's the agreement I had in the back of my mind, but unable to
materialize. The customer's responsibilities are clearly delineated in section
3. They don't seem overly constraining to me. They could still fit the charter
of a cooperative so long as all the members agree to the terms. I'd advise the
cooperative to indicate that their development plans would be open-ended, in
addition to any specific plans, in order to provide for additional projects that
may unknown at the time of the initial PID application. See if IBM approves it.
If IBM agrees, and the membership agrees, everyone is covered. Like IBM is
likely to disapprove of more software being developed for the platform.
On the other hand, the PID program would NOT be the right vehicle if members
needed a hosting environment to run business processes that were outside the
scope of the agreement. In that case, a cooperative may still be a good
organization to increase the purchase power of the members, discounted or not.
-Nathan
----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 8:32:14 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i in the cloud (was social media)
Well, pedantic can save a trip to our attorneys :-) I found the other doc I
was thinking about and it lays out the guidelines much better. I am pretty
sure this is the one I remember reading that really locks down the usage
(some reasonable and some not).
http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/IBMCustomerAgreementAttachmentForDeveloperDiscount.pdf
(see section 3.c)
Aaron Bartell
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