[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-07-25 kl. 15:53, skrev Scott Dorsey:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/21/20 5:26 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> So, Ok, would Bob be willing and able to produce the new version?  Would
>>>> someone provide him with the resources to do so?  Would someone host the
>>>> distribution and PAKs and whatever else?
>>>
>>> Why should VSI be involved at all?  If I understand things correctly,
>>> HPE could take that dollar.  VSI isn't in the VAX picture at all.
>>
>> Because HPE is no longer in the picture at all.  VSI is the only
>> game in town.
> 
> But VSI has no rights to any of the Vax distributions.  They did not purchase
> that from HP.  HP continues to own it, but has no interest in it.
> --scott
> 
> 

That is not what Robert Brooks wrote some days ago:

"...we *do* have the rights (and the VAX master pack, including the
Emerald builds) to produce a VSI version of OpenVMS VAX. We have
chosen not to do that...".

I read that as that VSI has as much "rights" to the VAX sources as
as they have had all then time to the Alpha sources. But on general
request that *did* chose to build a "VSI Alpha" kit. I guess there
simply is no business case to build a "VSI VAX" kit.