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by rafaelturk 815 days ago
All the Pain an unclear future of the mainframe is IBM's fault. Its insanely closed ecosystem, from hardwar do software. No one other than IBM has access to it. Seems to me that going further not even IBM team will know how to manage.

Once market builds an interesting compelling offer to mainframe, enterprises will leave IBM as fast as possible.
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unixhero 815 days ago
I find it strange that no one has reverse engineered and or cracked the platform and made key generators.

The microcode

The oses

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mrjin 815 days ago
The answer is simple: no such needs ever...

To deploy mainframes, you've most likely spent millions, sometime might even be hundreds of millions. In other words, money is not the problem. So why would someone ever risk getting into huge trouble by reverse engineering or cracking?

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unixhero 815 days ago
Because information wants to be free

Curiousness

A challenge

There are sometimes second hand mainframes for sale on Ebay

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