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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <619ce9b1$0$698$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> On 11/23/2021 2:19 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > 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,
> 
> Almost all VMS people use lots of open source.

Yes.  Not all is bad, by any means.  I use some myself.  But there are 
many things to criticize about Gnu philosophy.  I can understand people 
not wanting VMS to go that route.