[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 7:02 PM, abrsvc wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- -- Rob
>
> IIRC this was within the context of opensource software and porting
> it to OpenVMS.  The emphasis here is to get as much software working
> with OpenVMS as possible that is already available on other
> platforms.
  
No, it was not said in the context of open source.

Clair and I had a discussion shortly thereafter regarding the fact that
we do not sell and/or distribute VMS source listings, making it somewhat
difficult for an "outsider" to contribute.

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                       -- Rob