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

[seasoned_geek]

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 7:22:04 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >> 
> >> You realize Linux, BSD Unix, etc., all run on things like VAXen and Alpha, right?
> >> 
> > Which has nothing to do with the price of tea in China, whether or not the corn will grow this year, or just how complex the build environment is for VMS.
> 
> Do you somehow think the build process and environment for Linux or BSD
> is any less complex?  The only real difference is that the Linux and BSD
> environment and process are publicly available knowledge.  VMS has always
> been a secret.  There is no site that tells you what you need or how to
> build it from scratch.  And then you have the requirement for proprietary
> compilers and utilities.  It doesn't mean that VMS is somehow intrinsicly
> more complicated or difficult.  It is only because of the obscurity of
> the process.  
> 

Having built Linux from scratch many times in a single day, yes. For the past N years I've been doing embedded work using Qt, building Linux from scratch on a regular basis.