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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/7/2019 3:48 PM, IanD wrote:
> 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?

Why?  Probably more effort to that than just making the patches 
available and the user responsible for getting them.  No extra work 
there.  VSI does not need to increase their work load.

> 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

Agreed ...

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