[Info-vax] Naming, was: Re: vmstailor

[Bill Cunningham]

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge at panix.com> wrote in message 
news:nasr00$mm6$1 at panix2.panix.com...
>>> However, this whole having to instantly switch to the new name and never
>>> use the old one isn't a natural thing to do. If it was, then why do most
>>> people around here only ever say VMS instead of OpenVMS ?
>
> Because OpenVMS is a stupid name.
>
> And OpenVMS is no more open than Open Windows and only slightly more than
> OpenSolaris.

    Your right it *isn't* open source. Well when I think of VMS I think of 
Dave Cutler and V1.5 V2 V3-5. Not openVMS.

Bill