[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

> So if you use any piece of software that is VMS specific (indexed files,
> products such as All-in-1 etc) then you need to start thinking about
> porting strategies because we all know that it takes time to make a
> succesful port from VMS to some flavour of Unix.

While I agree that things are not exactly as they were 20 years ago, and 
the court documents do show some interesting things, I still find it 
interesting that I heard statements like that many times about 20 years 
ago (around the time of the VAX-to-Alpha transition).