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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/23/21 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.
> 

I agree. GPLed software is not free it is encumbered and controlled
by the FSF.  "Free" Opensource Software needs to come under something
like the BSD license which makes it truly free with no controlling
strings attached.

bill