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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qdfn5k$62h$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> Steven, in case you haven't already, why don't you contact VSI and 
> discuss a developers license?  You might even make a deal to provide ZIP 
> to them to offset any cost.

ZIP and UNZIP are publicly available, so there would be no direct 
benefit to VSI by getting them.

A developer's license is for someone developing a commercial 
application.  There is even one for Rdb.  That's a good idea; if you are 
still developing, probably you can't pay the full costs, but without the 
possibility to develop, there would be no new products.  So a 
developer's license makes sense, in general, but not here.

Getting ZIP and UNZIP up to date is not a commercial venture.

Like it or not, publicly available stuff (not just GNU, which I could 
probably do without) is necessary in today's world.  VSI should provide 
unlimited resources to people like Steven and Hunter who have experience 
in this area: set up a cluster, give them accounts, let them develop 
stuff there, run a webserver on it to make the stuff available, fix any 
bugs they find.