[Info-vax] VMS and security

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tlgnmt$1p5j$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> On 11/21/2022 2:31 PM, Steve Kelley wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 3:25:23 PM UTC-5, Arne VajhÞj 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.

For the future we are concerned with VSI VMS on Itanium.  Even a 
hobbyist will probably not be willing to invest much time, effort, or 
money for a license which might stop working less than a year from now.