[Info-vax] The Open-Sourcing Discussion, Yet Again

[Bob Koehler]

In article <52a8d982$0$1408$c3e8da3$b1356c67 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> No, the whole point of making VMS open source is to allow bits to be
> ported to other operating systems. Consider for instance moving TPU to
> OS-X/Linux.

   TPU was already cloned to other platforms by a/Soft.  Check and see
   how profitable it was for them.

   And they didn't port DEC's BLISS code, they wrote it from scratch.
   You want to do a port, you get to help GNU finish thier BLISS
   compiler.