[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <eb43b5c8-c59c-4885-af55-30f3c3874e0c at googlegroups.com>, IanD
<iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes: 

> I'm not just saying 'open source' because I think it's the best thing. I ad=
> vocate open source mainly because it's the current model that is attracting=
>  all the new minds to the point where most people coming out of uni now wil=
> l refuse to touch anything that is not open source - such has been the brai=
> nwashing of the young! Microsoft has all but caved in to this as well and h=
> ave done an about face

Is it some open-source tool which posts paragraph-long lines to a
text-based newsgroup, causing them to be unnecessarily base-64 encoded?

If people are brain-washed like this, that's not the mentality I want 
working on VMS.

> I advocate open source because I happen to think it's another way to remove=
>  the stumbling blocks that OpenVMS is already facing and it doesn't need mo=
> re stumbling blocks, it needs to make itself as attractive as possible

What are the stumbling blocks?  How will people familiar with OTHER 
open-source products be able to solve them?  Who will make sure that 
there is some quality control?  Who will pay them?