[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[David Goodwin]

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 11:47:12 PM UTC+12, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-07-27 kl. 13:28, skrev:
> > In article Dave Froble  writes:
> >> On 7/24/2020 6:09 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> >>> In article Dave Froble writes:
> >>>> On 7/24/2020 2:51 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> P.S. I'm posting this via the new Google Groups site.  Still has some rough edges.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I will once again confess to curiosity.
> >>>>
> >>>> When a decent newsreader does a decent job, and "real" news sites are
> >>>> available, would you or anyone use Google?
> >>>>
> >>>> What am I missing?  Why do people use the "lesser" Google groups?
> >>>
> >>> Why would anyone read a VMS newsgroup on anything but VMS?  :-)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not everybody uses VMS as a workstation.
> 
> If you round that amount slightly, I guess it is closer to "no one".
> 
> >>
> >> I got no problem using WEENDOZE as a user interface.
> > 
> > I do!
> > 
> 
> Then use MAC or Linux. Or raise the founds for VSI to
> support the workstation/desktop parts of VMS...

I wonder if VSIs license from HP allows them to release code under an open source license. The workstation/desktop bits are at this point I imagine fairly worthless and probably nothing more than a maintenance burden if its maintained at all.

Motif and CDE were already open-sourced several years back under the LGPL. So if VSI could release the VMS-specific bits under a compatible license perhaps the VMS workstation/desktop bits could be maintained outside of VSI by those that use it.