[Info-vax] OpenVMS app development, kitting (was: Re: Making Open Source Tools Work f

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/22/2021 4:09 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <sngnui$bhh$1 at dont-email.me>, seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
> (Stephen Hoffman) wrote:
>> BTW: OpenVMS customers REJECTED an offer to open-source OpenVMS.
>> Yes.  Really. Outright rejected that. Put slightly differently,
>> some of the open-source preferences around here can be...
>> unexpected.
> 
> I have encountered companies who wanted nothing to do with open source
> because it "threatened their intellectual property"

There are a few rare problematic cases like (A)GPL and libraries,
but generally there is no problem.

>                                                      or "was communist."

I can not remember any open source software that comes
from a communist country.

Arne