[Info-vax] VMS and security

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <647a7286-58e6-45fa-b4d6-8c191d75b2d4n at googlegroups.com>,
Steve Kelley <smk488 at gmail.com> writes: 

> 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. 
> > 
> > Arne
> 
> 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.

Maybe not nonexistent, but much less.

> One big difference between VMS and Linux -- Linux doesn't charge people to 
> become developers.

I was really optimistic when VSI took over VMS, but their license policy 
will probably kill it.