[Info-vax] x86-64-based Superdomes on the way (says HP)

[JF Mezei]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

> Apart from the fact that I actually prefer VMS not to be open source (at 
> least as long as it is available at all from its owner), why in the 
> world would HP open-source VMS?


Once HP announces that VMS will no longer be developped, it can chose to
 bury VMS and all its patents, IP, source code etc, or it could let it
out to be open sourced so some of the stuff might survive in the open
source community.

Perhaps Huff and Guy Peleg could get together and start to develop VMS
again from that open source feed :-)


There might also be some contractual obligations to release the source
code should HP stop developping VMS so that thsoe major customers would
be able to fix their own bugs etc.

Having said this, considering that HP still accepts support dollars for
VAX-VMS, it is likely it wll still accept support dollars for Alpha and
IA64 VMS long after they have stopped developping VMS.