From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 5:38:19 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > Ok. I'm the author of both MVS/380 and VM/380,   
      
   > No you're not.   
      
   In that case, you're not the author of the products you sell   
   either. IBM is. You used their compiler for whatever language   
   you wrote them in.   
      
   Don't go taking credit for other people's hard work in writing   
   a compiler.   
      
   And your mother made you too. So anything that isn't IBM's   
   work, is your mother's work. Don't claim credit for what she did.   
      
   > You're the author   
      
   Ok, we have common ground. I claimed to be an author, and   
   you agree, I'm an author.   
      
   > of a patch which makes what you call "MVS/380 and VM/380"   
      
   I'm not sure where you draw the line between "patch" and   
   "new development", but that's a semantic debate. It sure   
   as hell wasn't some sort of bug fix.   
      
   > simply a patched MVS 3.8J and VM/370 R6 PUT 17.   
      
   Yes, it was based on those public domain products. So?   
   What's wrong with extending public domain code to make   
   a new product? That's the beauty of it. You don't need to   
   write from scratch. That's my intended use for PDOS too.   
   You can use it as an unrestricted base.   
      
   > Don't go claiming you wrote the whole banana of things   
   > like access methods, access method services, all the   
   > SVCs etc.. because you didn't. IBM did.   
      
   How about you don't go claiming that I made such a claim?   
      
   > You're welcome to call your patches whatever you'd like.   
      
   I thought I just did? I called them MVS/380 and VM/380.   
      
   > But don't take credit for other's work.   
      
   How about you don't make claims that I took credit for   
   other people's work?   
      
   That's an outright lie.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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