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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/9/2021 5:20 PM, chris wrote:
> On 08/09/21 20:16, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/9/21 12:47 PM, chris wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> As someone who was there and fought against the removal of VMS from
>> academic circles, you are just plain wrong. No one other than the
>> administrator knew what LMF was or what it did. VMS went away from
>> academia because it was seen as old and not moving forward. It was
>> legacy. (There's that word again!!) It was dropped at the same time
>> that other legacy items like COBOL and Fortran and Pascal (and, yes,
>> Ada) were left in the dust.
>>
>>
>> Even after it left academia the schools still used it administratively.
>> It left that market when the canned packages everyone was using (like
>> Banner) dropped support for it. You would have to ask them why they
>> decided to abandon VMS. What does Oracle say about it??
>>
>> bill
>>
>
> I guess books have been written on that subject, but the OS market
> has far more choices now than in the past. Any OS trying to make
> headway needs to have as few encumbrances as possible and be simple
> to get started with. Just download, install and go, ideally. If it
> looks like hard work, people will go elsewhere...

Truth ...

The moe people exposed to VMS, the better it is for VSI ...

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