[Info-vax] up-and-coming 35th anniversary of VMS / OpenVMS

JF Mezei jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca
Wed Aug 31 13:10:51 EDT 2011


Bob Koehler wrote:

>    VMS contains IP not belonging to DEC->Compaq->HP.  You want them
>    to give away something incomplete?

DECwindows becomes royaltee-free when the OS is distributed freely. That
is how Linux and the BSDs are able to provide Xwindows for free, but
commercial OS like VMS and HP-UX can't.

Not sure what other portions of VMS incurr royalties. The DHCP server
was made by a company which no longer exists (join).



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