[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsrqg0$5qhq$3 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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.

Non-sequitur.

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

False.  It is amortized over every contributor versus having one
organization shoulder the entire cost.

>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.

You fundamentally missed the point of the Solaris reference in
my earlier post.

Let's turn this around: what do you think that VMS's future
prospects look like?