[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Dan Cross]

In article <tk9jug$12ar$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 11/2/2022 9:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>[snip]
>>                            could you also answer why people would be
>> willing to put the future of their company at risk by buying a product
>> from a small vendor (VSI) that will stop working if that vendor goes bust ?
>
>If VSI goes bust - which there is no indication that it will - and
>if there is noone picking up VMS - which seems unlikely if there
>are companies willing to pay - and it falls unlucky at the
>end of a license period and if the server is critical and if
>they did not negotiate and got a forever license from VSI, then
>it would be a problem.
>
>But that is a lot of if's.

That _is_ a lot of if's, but still "what if?"s that need to be
addressed, and none of them are relevant to Linux.  A small
likelihood of catastrophic failure is still non-zero; why chance
it when one need not?

	- Dan C.