[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/26/2022 3:11 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

OpenVMS users are not against closed source (for obvious reasons).

But very few OpenVMS users are against open source. They already
use lots of open source on VMS and on other platforms. Being
anti open source is so 1990'ish.

Arne