[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5400ddbc-dc1f-411a-ba73-82b73cc54e64o at googlegroups.com>,
David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> writes: 

> Problem is CDE these days is under the LGPL. We've been told VSI doesn't 
> have the rights to re-license any of the code they've received from HPE. This
> means they can't update to any recent release of CDE. So I guess that means
> that the existing desktop environment stays largely as is with no further
> updates.

How many people use CDE, Motif, DECwindows etc. on VMS?  Claims here are 
that it is (today) a very small minority.  Speaking for myself, I would 
have no objection whatsoever if it stays largely as is with no further 
updates.

There are WAY more-important things to do.