[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-02-02 04:03, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote 2014-02-02 05:40:
>> On 14-01-31 22:41, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> Hard when it don't exist. I don't understand why you insist on repeating
>>> it when people who should know says it don't exist.
>>
>>
>> Has any ex HP employee spoken to you about how their severance and
>> retirement packages depend on NDA agreements ?
>>
>> In the Oracle court thing, when the porting to x86 evaluation evidence
>> was presented, HP did not deny it had those projects and did not deny it
>> had decided to move ahead with them.
>>
>>
>
> Johnny, note that JF actualy wrote:
>
>  > The first step in moving VMS to x86 would get HP to provide the
>  > evaluation/pilot project it made a few years ago to move BCS OS to x86.
>
> Note the difference between "VMS" n the first part and "BCS OS"
> in the second part. That was HPUX and that has been verified several
> times. Last I heard of it was at some HP seminar.
>
> Now, I'm not saying that there is any reason to take any of the
> JF ramblig seriously in any way, but you are talking around
> each other in this case.
>
> I'm sure it was very well thought out by JF *not* to say
> "VMS" in that last part of the quote above since he also
> known very well that there are no evidence for that.

Unfortunately, JF seriously do mean VMS, which he have made clear many 
times before when he have made the same claim.

The fact that pretty much everyone who have been anywhere near the 
(potential) actual work says that it don't exist does not seem to bite 
of JF. And the problem with that is that then people with no knowledge 
will search the internet, and find lots of JF posts saying that it 
exists, and then you will have whole hordes of saying that it exists, 
because they found information on the net about it.
And it's all just a figment of JFs imagination.

Thus this false rumor spreading needs to be stopped.

	Johnny