[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[MG]

On 3-10-2011 7:27, Steven Schweda wrote:
>     My personal complaint, aside from the practical
> destruction of the hobbyist program, is the lack of a modern
> Web browser on Alpha, combined with a lack of audio support
> on IA64.

Is VMS I64 audio support still in the planning?  I do remember
reading that there's just one single, rare and technologically
extremely dated (over a decade old, at least), HP-badged audio
card that will provide 'limited audio' (you made a hilarious
comment about it on the ITRC forum at the time, I remember).

In some presentation sheets that I've seen, I saw mention of
audio support.  But then, a lot of things were mentioned (like
I64 Hobbyist media becoming "available soon").


>     The Roadmap item funniest to me was the description of
> GnuPG as "continuously updated on the web".  What I see at
>        http://h71000.www7.hp.com/opensource/gnupg.html
> is still "Download GnuPG V1.4-7 for OpenVMS for Integrity
> servers and OpenVMS Alpha  (December 2007)".  The current 1.x
> version is 1.4.11.  This must be some new meaning of
> "continuously".  Or else they're advertising _my_ GnuPG kits.

Well, that's rather... blatant, to say the least.  To me it's
no wonder that so many huge corporations like HP 'welcome' open
source.

Did they ever thank you or offer you, say, patch access in
return for your work?  (Which, from their perspective, would
only allow you to 'do your work even better'.)

  - MG