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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-31 16:30, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

I don't know, but I think that is an overly optimistic assumption.

> 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.

Also true, on both accounts... :-)

	Johnny