[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[IanD]

The hobbyist program is eagerly awaited

Free Will be the only thing to get young tyre kickers in. I was going to say open source for a lot of them but I've seen little evidence even the new code VSI has written for VMS will be open sourced.
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just resting what young people will work on these days, a fair number are ideologically driven, thanks (or no thanks) to social programming in our universities

I'd be happy with a hobbyist program that does a phone home of performance data and metrics back to VSI as 'payment' for a free hobbyist license

Patch access could be on a delayed basis (critical security excluded from delays), say lagging 3-6 months?

Not sure if like to see a capacity limited VMS offered on the hobbyist program though, like what some of the emulators do. I tried tyre kicking RDB and ran into trouble with one of the emulators being too limited and all that did was have me not bother with it and switch to something that I didn't need to grind my teeth on or that supposed I was a criminal trying to run a business with the free offering. Treating your user base on a guilty first assumption is in my opinion, not a good idea

Interesting times ahead of VMS :-)