From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, July 19, 2021 at 8:35:21 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   > Says who?   
      
   Are you saying you wrote in a language you designed yourself,   
   and wrote the compiler and library for yourself, and invented   
   the instruction code too?   
      
   > > Don't go taking credit for other people's hard work in writing   
   > > a compiler.   
      
   > I'm not.   
      
   Yes you are.   
      
   (just as much as I am, anyway)   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   > No she didnt. God made me.   
      
   Fine. Then don't take credit for God's work. You have done   
   absolutely nothing of any value your entire life, and no   
   work whatsoever, it was all down to God.   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   > But it doesnt exist independently. I can't boot MVS/380 or VM/380.   
      
   The entire Earth itself doesn't exist independently.   
   Everything is dependent on the Sun.   
      
   Regardless, with suitable real or emulated hardware,   
   you can boot MVS/380 and VM/380.   
      
   If your omniscience tells you that the Norks haven't   
   built a S/380 computer, and that microcode is OK,   
   but 80386 instructions are not, that's your semantic   
   debate to have on your own.   
      
   > > > 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.   
      
   > Yes, with attribution.   
      
   Nope. There is no need to provide attribution for public   
   domain code.   
      
   Regardless, even for copyright code that requires in the   
   license agreement that you provide attribution, they will   
   likely specify that it needs to be in the documentation or   
   something like that, not every time you make a Usenet   
   post.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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