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

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>On 6/7/2019 5:22 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 6/7/2019 3:48 PM, IanD wrote:
>>> The hobbyist program is eagerly awaited
>>>
>>> [...] I've seen little evidence
>>> even the new code VSI has written for VMS will be open sourced.
>>
>> It's not going to happen; give it up.
>
>Just curious Rob, is that a business decision, or determined by prior 
>legal agreements?  I've read before that what VSI writes is their own 
>property.

Well, for one thing customers don't -want- it to be open-sourced.
Opening it would be like shooting yourself in the foot because it
kills much of what people like about commercial operating systems.

>Not that I an interested in open source.

It has good and bad points.

Now, were something horrible to happen in the distant future and VSI were
to go away and VMS become abandonware, then I would certainly pick having it
open-sourced over being abandoned.  But hopefully this will be many decades
from now.
--scott
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