[Info-vax] VMS and security

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/21/2022 2:31 PM, Steve Kelley wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 3:25:23 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> But VMS has a huge handicap compared to Linux - the
>> interest in the VMS community to contribute to
>> open source is very small.
> 
> And until there is free access to VMS in some form (is there ever
> really going to be a community license for x86?), the interest in the
> open source community to contribute to VMS is going to be nonexistent.
> 
> One big difference between VMS and Linux -- Linux doesn't charge people to become developers.

One can get community license for Alpha and Itanium. Used Alpha boxes
are rather cheap. There is a free open source Alpha emulator available.
I expect community license for x86-64 to become available
at some point in time (maybe when native compilers become
available).

One can get the student license with an Alpha emulator.

One can get ISV license for Alpha, Itanium or x86-64.

One can get an account on DECUS Eisner.

I really don't see cost as something stopping those wanting
to contribute to open source on VMS.

Arne