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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2022 2:42 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/15/22 08:19, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <tnei5b$31mru$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>> The GPL has been tested in court multiple times, and this has
>>>> never even been close to an outcome.  Moreover, how many
>>>> large organizations have bet their collective farms on it?
>>>> If Google, Amazon, Meta, any number of government labs,
>>>> not to mention Fortune 500 companies are running Linux in
>>>> mission-critical roles, do you really think that is likely to
>>>> happen?  Didn't their lawyers scrutinize it with respect to
>>>> existing caselaw?
>>>
>>> Nothing is guaranteed.  How many actually though Roe vs Wade would be reversed?
>>> The unexpected can happen.
>>
>> Yup.  All atoms in a rock could spontaneously go in the same
>> direction, propelling it with great force.  I suspect that is
>> about as likely as the GPL being nullified by SCOTUS.  People
>> had been gunning for Roe for decades in contrast.
>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>> Sorry, but I'd wager a year's salary that this is how most
>>>> purchasing agents would see the matter.  It is NOT making the
>>>> case for VMS.  Folks who want to see VMS succeed need to do
>>>> better to make the case for it.
>>>
>>> If a purchasing agent is making IT decisions, then perhaps the customer is
>>> already screwed.
>>
>> Someone in IT is going to be asking these questions, and if they
>> are not, then they are not doing their job.  It's really that
>> simple.
>>
>>> If VMS proviodes the best solution/environment for a particular task, and it is
>>> not chosen, isn't that also taking a risk?
>>
>> Again, you guys don't seem to get it.  This question is
>> predicated on the assumption that there is a "particular task"
>> for which VMS provides the best solution/environment.  Yet, no
>> one seems to be able to articulate what that would be, or, more
>> importantly, why.
>
> Except Dave who thinks using VAX BASIC is the task.  :-)

Yeah, if you got over 40 years of development of a product that does exactly 
what it's intended to do, you should just seriously consider pitching it, huh?


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