[Info-vax] VMS and security

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/9/2022 8:55 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/8/2022 7:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 11/7/2022 11:24 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> I don't use Linux, but it is my impression that just about everything 
>>> in Linux
>>> is from third parties.  Nor is Linux restricted to a single vendor.
>>
>> I think that depends a lot on whether you talk about Linux
>> kernel or a typical Linux distro.
>>
>> The Linux kernel comes with very little.
>>
>> A typical Linux distro comes with almost everything (open source)
>> under the sun.
> 
> I think my point was that perhaps not all of that "almost everything" 
> comes from the same source.

That would be hundreds/thousands of open source projects.

Some of that stuff could work on VMS as well.

But VMS has a huge handicap compared to Linux - the
interest in the VMS community to contribute to
open source is very small.

Arne