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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/9/2019 2:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Yeah, what he wrote ....

In general, there may be some things where the restrictions effect 
everybody negatively.  No specifics, just a general comment.

For an example, if VSI wasn't interested, but another party was 
interested in taking a language front end and adapting it to LLVM or 
something else, that doesn't seem to be so easy.

I guess VSI could have some things done "under contract", which they 
could then make available.

And, just to emphasize, anyone who has read my past posts should realize 
I'm not one of those fans of open source.

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