Rob Landley wrote in a message to Luns Tee:

>     Warp Connect includes TCP/IP 3.0, but it's only the base kit and the
> IAK. There's no more info on programming for TCP/IP in there than there's
> ever been info on programming for OS/2 included with OS/2 - a healthy number
> of users are not programmers and would have no need for it.

 RL> Not info on programming it, I meant the X windows extensions
 RL> so you can run Xwindows programs on your warp PM.

IBM sells TCP/IP in pieces.  If you want the Sockets API, you have to pay
extra.  If you want the X/Windows server, you have to pay extra.

A lot of this is not strictly IBM's fault, since the still in-force 1956
consent decree in the anti-trust case specifically addresses the issue of
"tie-in sales," the legal term for what we commonly call
"bundling."  On the other hand, I think IBM has gone too far with
this, splitting off what should be a natural product -- TCP/IP -- into so
many little pieces, each with its own price tag.
 
-- Mike


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