[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Glen Herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> Neil Rieck wrote:
>>> As others have pointed out elsewhere, maybe OpenVMS should be put into
>>> the public domain under the GPL (general public license). 
>>
>> What should it be called?  OpenOpenVMS?  Open(really this time)VMS?
> 
> That does not sound too well.
> 
> Which leaves:
>   OpenVMS Community Edition for the free one
>   OpenVMS Enterprise Edition for the one HP would still sell support for
> 
> Arne

If it's "in the public domain" you don't NEED a license!

HP could try Sun's business model for Solaris.  The software is free; 
O/S and development tools.  Support costs money.

As a hobbyist, I must either find and fix the problems myself or hope 
that some paying customer will encounter the same problem I have and 
will pay for a solution.

By making the O/S and development tools freely available, they encourage 
people to write software for the Sun Solaris platform.  They don't say 
"you must", they simply make the software available for download.  It 
may take years to see how this is going to work out, or not.  The Sun 
model makes at least as much sense, to me, as any of the others!