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

[David Froble]

Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's possible that there might be some who would want to be helpful, to 
contribute.  I've thought about it.  Of course, it would be in Basic.  One way 
to suggest to John the priorities for the different compilers ....

:-)