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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/22/2021 1:36 PM, 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. Even among 
> folks that have worked with OpenVMS for decades.

If it was HP(E) that made the offer then I would actually
have been skeptical as well - it could be part of a plan
to offload maintenance cost to the community aka drop support.

Arne