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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2021 8:38 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

There is a very long line of people that don't like Stallman.

But an OS under GPL is not a license problem for users.

But GPL VMS by HE would have looked like an escape plan. And
GPL VMS by VSI sound like a bad business plan.

Arne