[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 
> But over the years, VMS adopted much of open sourced stuff and
> components such as X11 which came from external sources.

Iirc DEC was involved in the development of X11,
so that's hardly an external source.

> TCPIP Services containes much software which was conceived on Unix and
> which moves wuickly in Unixland.

TCP/IP is as old as the hills.
If DEC couldn't fix it in the past 20+ years,
it would mean that the heroes were gone
already back then, not just yesterday.

> 
> And now, the original elves and super heros have been replaced by unkown
> drones  who are not yet up to snuff, as evidenced by the types of
> problems found in 8.4.
>