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

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
> 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.


Much of TCPIP services was moved offshore well before last year's
devastating move.

Also, remember that TCPIP is a very dynamic software with patches coming
out often in the real world. So you need an equally dynamic team with
sufficient budgets to follow the open source software with their
proprietary version of that software.

This is why, all that software should have been made open sources with
the VMS portion part of the real open source tree so that all
upgrades/fixes in the open source world would be compilable on VMS by
anyone without having to wait for VMS engineering drones to get budget
approval to do it.