[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:15:59 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <Fc2dnfSHw9YW-iDXnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
> Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>
>> Keeping bad code a secret in order to prevent hacking is, to say the
>> least, a poor way to do business.  Sun has made most of the Solaris
>> source code available for comment, criticism, and improvement.  The
>> stuff that's still not public belongs in whole or in part to third
>> parties and is used by Sun under license.
> 
>    Obviously Sun and Microsoft don't think the same!  Sun was one of the
>    early proponents of "open sysytems".  Microsoft owns the most closed
>    system in the business.  Nobody is allowed to see inside!

Not true. We had access to the NT source code, and I think it's still 
around somewhere.

Not that I thought much of the quality...



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