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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-06-09 18:11:45 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> As you likely know during a negotiation, you typically need to give 
> something up to get something.  I cannot imagine VSI wanting to give up 
> something for the right to open-source (or otherwise distribute) the 
> HP-owned VMS source.

As HPE exits the OpenVMS business, HPE has made what revenue that they 
can with OpenVMS.
No new HPE patches starting in less than two years, and best-effort 
support past that.
That's a seemingly reasonable time to transfer full source rights to 
the exclusive licensee.
That'll probably be the last hunk of cash HPE can acquire from VSI, if 
HPE are inclined to ask for it and not simply transfer it.
Without those rights, HPE affixes an anchor on the future options 
available for VSI, and for any potential acquisition of VSI.
As for why transfer sooner, rather than later?  The more revenue VSI 
makes, the more that HPE might be inclined to ask for.
All sheer speculation, of course.


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