[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Tue Sep 28 23:37:50 EDT 2021


On 9/28/2021 9:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/28/2021 8:53 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 12:46:26 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj
>> wrote:
>>> Except for the x86 to x86-64 port they were not commercially
>>> successful ...
>>
>> Wonder why, when several of those architectures did go on to be
>> commercially successful,
>> the proprietary OS failed to follow, but the open-source one did?

What is the definition of "commercially successful" ??

"Open source" perhaps implies "free", so how does that indicate 
commercial success?

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