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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/8/2019 7:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Because when every Tom, Dick, and Harry, along with every Sally, Jane, 
and Alice start hacking up custom code, who knows what the outcome will 
be, AND, you'll be the sole tester of the code, instead of code that is 
checked and tested by many.

If you gotta write custom code, then do so, but stay out of stuff that 
most are not qualified to touch.


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