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

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

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<1f81536c-a5cb-4e39-8512-41e882d591db at d19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes: 

> According to this link:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/open-source-biology.html (look
> for the yellow text), the amount of money made on Linux is well into
> the multiple billions. I guess it goes without saying that pushing
> OpenVMS into the open source community probably won't put money into
> HP's accounts (at least not initially). It would allow HP to sell more
> hardware -AND- it might enable them to sell other stuff like layered
> software and compilers etc. Then, like IBM is doing, they could sell
> OpenVMS support (after all, isn't that one reasons why they bought
> EDS? So they could get their feet in the door of all businesses).

Someone too cheap to pay for quality software is not going to pay for 
expensive non-commodity hardware which, if anything, is worth than the 
competition.  Nor would they be willing to pay for compilers.

Whatever mistakes have been made with VMS, and there were many, not 
making it open source was NOT one of them.