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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/10/21 1:34 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

I don't know about greedy, but as far as the IT world is concerned
they are certainly less honest than they were 30 years ago.

> 
>> 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.
> 

It has little to do with the concept of Open Source and a lot
to do with the modern day concept of entitlement.

bill