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As an ex MVS chap (I managed VSAM (DL/1) based SAP R/2 systems on IMS DB/DC at the start of my career) I was amazed some months back to find Hercules, the open source S/370 emulator.
So imagine my delight when I revisited Hercules the other day, to find a chap called Volker [...]

At this year’s Sapphire in Boston, Shai Agassi came out with some astounding and questionable views on free and open source software: “Open-source technologies such as Python and PHP, to name just two, are of great interest to college students and younger people with a passion.“
He goes on to point out the distance between that, [...]