Description: Roger Bowler - z/OS software engineer and creator of the Hercules ESA/390 emulator
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I am a z/OS system engineer and the creator of the Hercules ESA/390 emulator, which in 1999 caused a minor revolution in the mainframe computing world by enabling private individuals for the first time to run mainframe computer software on their own PC's. And what's more, I gave it away for free. I must be nuts! Patents are Evil Originally designed to encourage invention, the patent system has been abused by large companies who build up patent portfolios so that they can use them as a tool to crush smaller
From 2001 to 2013 I worked for SysperTec supporting their flagship product VIRTEL.