[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 2:35:19 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/29/2021 6:05 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: 
>
>> 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.

You mean “proprietary”.

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

And there is Microsoft again. Which do you think is money better spent -- that it is putting into Windows, or that it is putting into Linux? Which is offering a better return to its shareholders?

Particularly given that the latter is a drop in the bucket compared to the former.