[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4ZdPWlt2gtQ7 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <k6cofp$f3d$1 at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> 
>> It may well be that they don't own all of the IP hidden in VMS.
> 
>    It has been clearly reported many times, by people who would know,
>    that VMS contains IP that DEC, Compaq, and now HP, doesn't own.

So did Unix (as regards AT&T, not HP :-)  and the solution was to remove
the offending parts and let the rest go Open Source.  I would assume that
those portions would be about as significant ans the AT&T parts of Unix
were and could be re-engineered by people out here.

Of course, this still begs the issue that it is unlikely HP would ever
open source VMS in the first place, but it is fun to shoot down strawmen.

bill
 

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