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

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-05-07, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 3:05:56 AM UTC-5, Paul Sture wrote:
>>> If the build process is as well documented as the rest of the VMS then I
>>> would expect that someone competent with similar toolchains (and
>>> obviously VMS itself) would be able to get there, though obviously not
>>> as quickly as someone with direct experience of the build process.
>>>
>>> It was after all transferred to India and back.
>>>
>> 
>> I'm not so certain about that. While coding was sent there, I'm not
>> so certain the full build process was being done there. This is HP we
>> speak of. A company which announces they are getting out of the PC
>> business without first finding a buyer for the division. Just because
>> they "announced" development moved to India doesn't mean there wasn't
>> some red headed step child chained in a basement somewhere in America
>> forced to run nightly builds.
>
> Anyone who has been reading c.o.v for a while might remember the post by 
> VSI that they had people in India to get the VMS sources, build 
> commands, and such.  (Unless I dreamed the post)

No you didn't dream it, David.

> So, yes, it was happening in India ....

Ayup, and to get there it must have left the US in the first place ;-)

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