[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <3a643f5c-5df8-4743-b466-a5ae1599aa38n at googlegroups.com>,
David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> writes: 

> But I don't see that happening. Too risky, too hard. And I suspect many
> OpenVMS users would rather see the platform go extinct than be 
> open-sourced.

If VMS were open source, it wouldn't work.  Many point out the 
differences between VMS and other operating systems.  One of them is 
that if open source works for some, it doesn't necessarily work for all.

The main problem is the lack of perpetual licenses.