[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2023 6:20 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> Interesting and superior technology always loses relative to
> simple economics.  Linux is available gratis; VMS is not.  Ergo,
> VMS cannot compete.  30 years ago, Linux was strictly worse than
> VMS in every measurable way; now the inverse is true.  This is
> not an accident; economics dictate that proprietary will always
> lose going forward.

Everybody likes free.

But even though creating an additional copy of software
is free/effortless, then creating the software is not
free/effortless.

Fundamentally it cost the same to create 1 line of
open source code as 1 line of closed source code.

There are some open source projects that can make
it work. Linux is a good example of a huge success.

But there are also some that can't make it work.
My last post mentioned OpenSolaris. But products
like ElasticSearch and Akka are also switching
from open source licenses to different licensing.

Arne