[Info-vax] Open source usage, Was Python and various libraries updated

[David Goodwin]

On Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 8:03:34 AM UTC+12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> To me the biggest problem with VMS and open source is not VSI
> but the community.
> 
> There are way too few that are willing to spend time
> on VMS open source.

If open source projects on OpenVMS are important then VSI probably needs to actively encourage participation. Perhaps if some of their own things were open source and easy to contribute to people in the OpenVMS community would get involved. 

As far as the wider open-source community goes, unless big changes are made that's probably a lost cause. OpenVMS is too obscure and too proprietary for most to bother with even if they have heard of it and are aware its still maintained.