[rescue] AIX & RS/6000

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Fri Oct 17 08:16:23 CDT 2003


On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:51:17PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> IBM licenses AIX just like Sun licenses Solaris.  There are no
> provisions in the software to police your licenses, but if you ever want
> IBM service, they'll audit you.  Even if you don't want IBM service, the
> BSA can give you a bad day.

Is IBM part of the BSA?  I've heard enough stories of the BSA trashing
all non-windows machines at companies to make me suspicous about any
unix vendors being in it.



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