Per the text of the license I pulled for a customer for the desktop client a year ago($140), the fee covers Supprot from IBM only. The software, at least as far as I could tell from the license at that time, was, in fact, free to ues so long as you don'tneed support. Servers are a different story, but I applied the same reasoning to my design client since I pay $240 a year to an IBM business partner for an ID on a productin environment (among other things).
Per the text of the license I pulled for a customer for the desktop client a year ago($140), the fee covers Supprot from IBM only. The software, at least as far as I could tell from the license at that time, was, in fact, free to ues so long as you don'tneed support. Servers are a different story, but I applied the same reasoning to my design client since I pay $240 a year to an IBM business partner for an ID on a productin environment (among other things).