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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <serm6d$onk$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes:
> 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.

So people are less greedy now than 20 or 30 years ago?  I doubt that.

> 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...

If you want open-source software, use it, but that is irrelevant to the 
discussion of VMS, since VMS is not open source.