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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/9/21 5:12 PM, chris wrote:
> On 08/09/21 21:35, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article<serrmi$1akh$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris-nospam at tridac.net (chris)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/09/21 19:04, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 8/9/2021 1:37 PM, chris wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps so, but desn't change the fact that Oracle have made a
>>>>> support only business model a success, Linux or Solaris. A vast
>>>>> range of s/w from that site, same business.
>>
>> Oracle are not primarily in the OS business. Nor were Sun.
>>
>> Sun were in the hardware business, and became non-viable when commodity
>> hardware with Linux became far more cost-effective than their own
>> hardware with Solaris.
>>
>> Oracle are in the database software business. The database is free to
>> evaluate, but /not/ to use for commercial production work.
> 
> Of course, all that is public knowledge and here at least, have been
> using Sun kit for far longer than vms. That's sad, because VMS was the
> first serious OS I worked with and I really liked it. At least with
> some other proprietary systems, I can evaluate at no cost and use them
> without limit for non commercial purposes. More likely to find something
> to recommend to clients under such conditions.
> 
>>
>>> Of course, but we are not suggesting that and in any case, Oracle
>>> always have, right back to the days of Sun, done all the Solaris
>>> development in house, millions of $, but have made money from it
>>> none the less.
>>
>> They seem to have rather lower levels of spending on that these days.
> 
> Yes, nothing stays the same, but still doesn't negate the point I was
> trying to make about successful software licensing models...
> 

Anybody here know what licensing model Unisys uses?  They don't call
it a Hobbyist Program but I have Unisys 2200 running on Intel here.
Works under Windows or Linux.  Just like the days when I did Univac
1100 running Exec-8.  Still supports the 68/74 COBOL compiler I used
when I did this every day.

bill