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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/8/2019 10:04 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

I don't think you are right about this.

Some people have emotional bias pro or con
open source.

But the key decisions makers usually only
have a strong pro feeling about making money.

I don't see why they would prefer:

NNNNNN features + source not available

over:

NNNNNN features + source available

Arne