[Info-vax] OpenVMS in the future, Open sourced or Closed? Intent is to keep it...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

IanD skrev den 2015-05-02 13:33:


> On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 4:58:40 PM UTC+10, Phillip Helbig (undress
> to reply) wrote:

>>
>> Why should they open-source it?
>
> I'll reciprocate by asking you, why not?
>
> Here's my reasons for why...
>
> It worked very well for linux

Linux was never open-sourced. It was open-source from
the very start. And at that time it was, as far as I
understand, far from the volume and complexity that
VMS is today (and probably as Linux is today also).