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- From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro)
- Subject: Re: Legalities of making PTFs available for ftp?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.215037.153641@ipgaix.unipg.it>
- Organization: Universita' di Perugia
- References: <1993Jan19.171004.69432@crs4.it>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:50:37 GMT
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- svpillay@.crs4.it (Kanthan Pillay) writes:
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- >Greetings
-
- >What are the issues involved in my setting up a repository of AIX PTFs
- >for anonymous ftp?
-
- >Patches from other vendors (Sun, SGI) are available from archive sites.
- >Does IBM have any objection to similar practice?
-
-
- I completely agree with you and with the other IBM people here
- about the fact that IBM should provide anon ftp distribution
- of AIX/6000 PTFS and APARS, if this have not legal or economical
- implications.
-
- It is only my personal opinion, but maybe I may help to get IBM
- attention on this topic.
-
- The idea is that some non-IBM people here may get e-mail
- about the fact that IBM should ship PTF via anon FTP (both
- positive and negative please).
-
- After a reasonable amount of time (30 days?), the same people
- should summarize the answers and send the summary to this
- group and the summary, with the complete file of answers,
- to some IBM people.
-
- The summary may be posted to the IBM Internal AIX community,
- and the complete answers file sent to the interested IBM people.
-
- Using that way, we may be able to recall the IBM attention
- about this fact (remember IBM is an abstraction, the important
- thing is that IBM key people will be pointed on this problem
- by a reasonable amount of customers).
-
- I'm interested on opinions about this strategy (that is a
- personal idea, not an IBM idea, neither related to my job
- in IBM) both from non-IBM people and from IBM people reading
- this post.
-
- For IBM people wishing to write me about that, my VNET ID
- is <75819593 at ITHVM06>.
-
- Thank for the attention, I hope this may help all of us,
- Regards Peppe
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- Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA | E-Mail : peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it
- University of Perugia Italy | 06100 Perugia Phone:+39.75.585-2200
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