[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/25/20 5:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/25/2020 12:52 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/25/20 9:53 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Something otherwise has been stated.  VSI has the rights, just not the
>> interest.
>>
>> I would have hoped the interest could be found if only for historical
>> reasons, but I suspect too many people want to see the VAX just fade
>> into obscurity like so much else of our history.
> 
> Like Christopher Columbus, and others?  Washington?  Jefferson?
> 

By "our" I meant computing history. But, the current attack  on real
history is likely to change a lot of what our grandchildren will learn.
I have no problem with the attack on Columbus, just not for the same
reasons.  I think he was either a fool or a fraud and I am in favor of
fraud.

bill