[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-10, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <r48484$ltb$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> I wonder, if someone tried to create an open source version of VMS
>> from public documentation only, if VSI would somehow try to suppress
>> development of it.
>
> You mean reverse-engineer it?
>

If you mean looking at the undocumented/private internal functions
in VMS and then trying to duplicate them, then absolutely _NO_ way.

If you mean looking at the public APIs and other documentation and
duplicating that with something very different underneath, then yes.

Simon.

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