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O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage

Posted by timothy on from the tradition-of-heritage dept.

theodp writes "After exchanging e-mail with mainframe software pioneer Mario Morino, Tim O'Reilly writes 'It's important for the open source community to look more at the software heritage of the mainframe era.' O'Reilly might want to take a look at how Marino's own MICS software has been used since the 80's to automatically charge IBM mainframe users for printed material that could be ordered from PC clients with a single action by using billing and shipping information that was previously stored on a Mainframe server. The whole process might seem oddly familiar."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fp for lunix fagz. fuck the gnaa.

  2. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    acehole?? I guess you like it in the ass. RIGHT ace.

  3. That would be GNU/Linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Get it straight, people. Linux is the kernel, GNU/Linux is the operating system. Is it so hard to keep the two straight?

    1. Re:That would be GNU/Linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Is that you Poul-Henning Kamp?

      Look, asshole, you not only ruined FreeBSD but now you have to come here with your stupid trolls? FUCK OFF

      Josep Mallett

  4. Re:LOUD SUCKING SOUND EMANATING FROM BUFFALO, NY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    So fucking what?

    Learn something that's still worth paying for in America - software is not anymore.