[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, at the initial conference call when VSI announced 
> the port to x86, it was stated, rather definitively, that a hobbyist 
> programme essentially similar to previous hobbyist programmes would 
> exist by the time VMS was available on x86.
>

[snip]

>
> As far as image is concerned, if VSI doesn't keep its word here, where 
> little effort and no revenue is involved, people might wonder whether 
> other promises will be kept.  It's just good PR.  And if hobbyists had 
> access to patches, like in the old days, VSI would have an army of 
> testers at no additional cost.
>

We are talking about a management that is so out of touch with reality
they can't even be bothered to place an industry standard security
reporting mechanism on their own website even after they promised to do so,
and when circumstances force them to finally place one on the website,
it gets removed later on after the fuss has died down.

[I mention that because it's one of those "little effort" things you
mention above.]

What makes you think VSI _management_ give a damn about hobbyists
because they are certainly projecting an image that they don't ?

(And for the record, since this hasn't come up in a while, and given that
there are some new names around here, I still see a difference between
VSI management and the VSI engineers, and the engineers I still have
_NO_ problems with).

Simon.

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