[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <44caae34-4e58-48bb-a3fc-d2e0f9933b80o at googlegroups.com>,
David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> writes: 

> 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.

WHY?

VSI has made no announcement that they would drop "workstation" support, 
i.e. on-chip graphics would be supported, so one could still run 
DECwindows, CDE, etc.  I certainly want that to come with VMS and not 
have to unload some gzipped tarball from the internet and install it 
myself.  Maybe on-chip graphics on x86 are better than the most powerful 
graphics cards in ALPHAs.