[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Dave Froble]

On 4/26/2022 9:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

I don't see where this "anti-open source" comes from.  Doesn't make any sense.

Even if VMS was open source, VSI would still have their copy of it, and they 
would use and support that copy.  If someone else wanted to do otherwise, fine, 
who cares, but VSI would most likely not support anything they didn't control. 
For that matter, who would do such a stupid thing?

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