[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 10/3/2016 3:27 PM, dgordonatvsi at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 2:20:41 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
>>
>> Is the DECnet code covered by the agreement with HP, specifically, it
>> cannot be "open sourced"?  If not, you could make it available and say
>> "here it is, do what you want".
>>
>
> For practical purposes, all the code obtained under the HP agreement is the
> same:  Base OS, System Integrated Products (DECnet IV, V, etc..), and layered
> products.  Any talk of "open source" is simply hot air.  Forget it.

What Doug said.

Also, while it is the case that VSI does "own" the code that
we develop, that's a tiny drop in the overall VMS code base, and is essentially
useless without the parts that HPE will always own.

Tiny carrot:

At the boot camp, Clair did say something about looking for a mechanism that 
non-VSI folks could potentially contribute to the VMS code base.

Nothing beyond that was said, and investing time right now in sorting it out is 
not at the top of anyone's to-do list.

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                  -- Rob