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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/15/2011 6:01 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

H-P makes money selling patches and updates to VMS.  I have no idea how 
much but those software service contracts were never cheap.