[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[John Wallace]

On Aug 9, 12:40 pm, m.krae... at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
> In article <1050cf27-ab01-4c06-98a9-6e8c98949... at g33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> writes:
>
> > But I also "know we live in the age of uber-capitalism". Management
> > always needs to be seen doing something to "increase profits" or
> > "decrease costs" or both.
>
> That's not "uber-capitalism", this is simple
> economic common sense.
> Even a non-capitalistic economy would have to obey this law.
> Eastern block economies didn't and went out of business.
>
> > This means it is very likely that HP will
> > not officially support OpenVMS forever. They will never be able to
> > sell it for a decent amount, and they would never put it into the
> > public domain (unless they were allowed to incur a large write-off).
>
> Watch the fate of OS/2 and you'll see what's in the pipeline for VMS.
> If there's too much third party IP in VMS, HP can't possibly
> put it into public domain.
> IBM has been asked several times to do so for OS/2,
> but they refused it for exactly that reason.

" too much third party IP in VMS"

Got any examples of VMS components containing third party IP that
aren't separately licenced already? E.g. as FredK has recently
explained, Motif was 3rd party IP that used to be bundled but then the
rules changed and it became separately licenced so the costs could be
accounted for. VMS didn't (doesn't?) support Adaptec SCSI adapters
because 3rd party IP was involved and was too difficult. At the
moment, I'm struggling to think of an example of 3rd party IP which is
currently bundled. Doesn't mean there isn't any, but...