[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/14/2020 5:59 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/14/20 5:22 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-11-14 kl. 20:35, skrev John Dallman:
>>> In article <roosmk$ga0$1 at dont-email.me>, jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
>>> (Jan-Erik Söderholm) wrote:
>>>> Read my lips, there will *never* be a "modern" browser running on
>>>> VMS servers having features up to date with browsers on desktop
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> Is there some fundamental impossibility to porting Chromium or Firefox?
>>> Or do you simply reckon nobody will go to sufficient effort?
>>
>> It will never be there since there is no one paying the bill for it.
> 
> Who paid the bill for Mozilla?  Who paid the bill for Linux?
> 
> Sometimes people do things for reasons other than  money.

It happens.

But most of the big open source successes are heavily supported
by the big commercial entities.

Mozilla make money from Google.

Linux has a lot of corporate contributors: IBM/Redhat, Intel, AMD,
Samsung, Oracle etc..

Of course something is possible.

But the VMS community is notoriously unwilling to spend time
on open source.

If someone ask what DEC should have done 30 years ago then there
are 20 people with an opinion.

If someone ask for a person to take over maintenance of
some VMS open source then there are typical zero responses.

Arne