[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/29/2021 6:05 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 2:20:36 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Linux kernel is not a business.
> 
> Given that most of the contributors to the kernel are making a living from it, I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean.

It means that the Linux kernel is not adding or dropping support for a
given architecture based on how many licenses they sell or can sell
on that architecture.

> How is it that companies with orders of magnitude greater resources than the Linux kernel community are unable to match its productivity?

Maybe because the reality is that the Linux kernel community has
an order of magnitude greater resources than the commercial OS vendors.

Support from many commercial companies including Intel, AMD,
ARM, NVidia, IBM, Samsung, Redhat, SUSE, Google, Facebook, Oracle,
Huawei, Microsoft.

And there still are a significant number of volunteering
individuals (with like 5-10% of commits).

Arne