[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[chris]

On 08/09/21 17:19, chris wrote:
> business headed,

Typo: business headed, should read, business model.

LMF type systems belong to a past age of greed, mistrust and
assumptions about customer honesty and have no place in the
modern age. One of the primary reasons why vax and vms was
dumped by so many uni departments and businesses, but some never
learn.

Similar problems with embedded development tools, and compilers
in the past, where the software install was node locked,
sometimes with a dongle as well. Endless problems if it was
necessary to install on different machine, with vendors even
charging  a fat fee for the "privilege". Open source tools
changed that forever, just as open source operating systems
changed the os market as well.

Dump LMF comletely, free to download and evaluate or for non
commercial use, but subscription support contract model for
ongoing patches and updates, jsut as everyone else does...