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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/8/2019 4:31 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Tell me, where can I get a copy of ZIP for VMS on x86?  Inquiring minds 
want to know.


> A developer's license is for someone developing a commercial
> application.

I think VSI might be more of an authority for defining who is eligible 
for a developer's license than you might be.

>  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.

But, it is a task, and just who is going to do it?

> 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.

Or grant them a developer's license ??????


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