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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-06-09 19:18:06 +0000, Dave Froble said:

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

We're increasingly dependent on open-source even within closed-source 
environments, and there's little reason to think that trend will change.

VSI is heavily dependent on open-source for their VSI OpenVMS product, too.

Closed source shares many of the same issues as open source, and with a 
more constrained set of maintainers.

There've been great maintainers and great stewards of closed-source 
code.  And there've been some atrocious ones.  Same for open-source 
code.

One of the major differences between closed- and open-licensed code is 
one additional option for end-users, should the commercial provider 
become... problematic.

As an example of this, I'd wager you weren't fond of the situation 
after then-HP announced the end of OpenVMS, and that HPE is now 
delivering on, right?  Prior to VSI de-cloaking, that is.


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