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Hello Fernando, old friend (or young friend, don't know your age)
... :-)<br>
<br>
PP, by essential design, does allow you, in plain DOS, to type:<br>
<br>
PP TRANSFORM *.PLI to NetRexx -recursive<br>
<br>
The recusive option walks down all sub-directories first, and then <br>
goes upper and upper ...<br>
<br>
Any INCLUDED PL/I Files are processed as well, if you are following
the<br>
proposed Directory structure(still to be documented).<br>
<br>
You might also type:<br>
<br>
PP TRANSFORM *.PLI to COBOL -recusive<br>
<br>
*or*<br>
<br>
PP TRANSFORM *.CBL to Java -recursive<br>
<br>
Which wolud translate your whole BOLBOL staff to plain Java (by
design)-:-)<br>
<br>
Of course when finished, I would like to earn Money ...<br>
<br>
Sorry to say...<br>
<br>
Thomas Schneider.<br>
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Am 04.08.2011 23:26, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
<blockquote
cite="mid:CACGw4H7pnK7rngji8enbLwRNX--nm7yf4WwxsJLCkzsCtZAedQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Leaving the legalese aside, I think the point is moot.
As this is software used "in-house" by big corporations, how does
the author know that the product was used to convert 1000 source
code lines or 10,000 ? or that the executable has not been
tampered to avoid the 1000 lines count?<br>
<br>
As software tends to be modular by nature, they could just break
down a 100,000 lines of code program in its different routines and
run a batch conversion, 1000 lines at a time (supposing the
sub-routines are small enough), using the free version, and again,
how would the author know?. He can´t.<br>
<br>
I think Thomas´ approach is wrong, on many levels.<br>
<br>
1. PL/I and COBOL are of interest ONLY to big corporations.<br>
2. Rexx, Java and Netrexx have more usage by enthusiasts and
"common users" (non-corporations).<br>
<br>
Hence, what I would do is release the parser and Rexx and Java
definitions under any open source license he likes, and then SELL
THE PL/I and COBOL language definitions and translation routines,
as propietary software, with any price he likes.<br>
<br>
Oracle gives away the free community buld of MySQL, and at the
same time sells the more powerful propietary Oracle database to
corporations. Learn from that...<br>
<br>
Just my $0.02<br>
<br>
FC<br>
<br>
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On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 18:16, John Cowan <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:cowan@mercury.ccil.org">cowan@mercury.ccil.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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padding-left: 1ex;">
David Woolley scripsit:<br>
<div class="im">><br>
>> What would *you think* that a fair amount of source
code lines for FREE<br>
>> Usage is?<br>
>><br>
>> 5.000 Lines of PL/I or COBOL Code?<br>
>> 10.000 Lines?<br>
>><br>
>> *or what* do you think there in the UK & USA?<br>
>><br>
> The UK doesn't have "fair usage" provisions, and I live
in the UK.<br>
<br>
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He means, "How much should *I* allow as fair usage before
demanding<br>
money?" which is a very different question.<br>
<br>
In fact, "fair dealing" is recognized under the Copyright,
Designs,<br>
and Patents Act 1988, and provides a safe harbor for copying
done for<br>
specified non-commercial purposes. A U.S. court must take not
only<br>
purpose into account, but the effect of the copying on the
commercial<br>
value of the original, the nature of the work being copied,
the amount<br>
and substantiality of the portion copied, and (by judicial
construction)<br>
whether the copied work is a parody of the original.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Why are well-meaning Westerners so concerned that John
Cowan<br>
the opening of a Colonel Sanders in Beijing means <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>
the end of Chinese culture? [...] We have had <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ccil.org/%7Ecowan"
target="_blank">http://www.ccil.org/~cowan</a><br>
Chinese restaurants in America for over a century,<br>
and it hasn't made us Chinese. On the contrary,<br>
we obliged the Chinese to invent chop suey.
--Marshall Sahlins<br>
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<br>
-- <br>
"Si, yo creo en los objetos. Inclusive más que en los seres
humanos. Creo que son más fieles ¿no?. Porque, claro, los seres
humanos pueden traicionarte, pero los objetos no, a los objetos<br>
los traicionamos nosotros."<br>
-Manuel Mujica Laines<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Thomas Schneider (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.thsitc.com">www.thsitc.com</a>)
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