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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

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.

No surprise.  People who use VMS like VMS.  People who use VMS don't 
like some open-source code, and don't like Richard 
if-your-code-is-not-open-source-then-that-is-a-crime-against-humanity M. 
Stallman and his ilk driving the community.  (Yes, Stallman---who by all 
accounts seems to be a rather creepy guy---really said that, insulting 
millions of victims of real crimes against humanity.)

Has VMS been handled badly by its owners, including DEC?  Sure.  Should 
the solution be open source?  Probably not.  The world is not black and 
white, though it seems that more and more people try to see it that way, 
e.g. either one supports Trump or one is woke.   Whatever happened to 
old-fashioned common sense?