[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Dave Froble]

On 7/27/2020 5:45 PM, David Goodwin wrote:
> 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.
>

I wonder if you're approaching this from the wrong angle?

Isn't what you're talking about is a port of Motif, CDE, and whatever to 
VMS?  Would you really need some of the internal VMS code to do this?

Might be a bit harder to get some proprietary code released as open 
source than to get VMS to support whatever is necessary for such a port.

I don't do such, so my suggestion may not have merit ....

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