[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Michael Kraemer @ home]

Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <k5crhdFroqeU1 at mid.individual.net>,
> Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> 
>>Dan Cross wrote:
>>
>>>I'll be blunt: the only reasonable path for VMS to survive
>>>is to open source it under an OSI-approved license.  VSI
>>>should dedicated itself to finishing the x86_64 port and
>>>doing the necessary legal work to make that happen, and
>>>then pivot to consulting and services (honestly: this is
>>>what DEC should have done, and it's largely what IBM did
>>>in order to survive in the 00's).
>>
>>what exactly did IBM opensource in the 00's?
>>MVS? AIX? i? the Tivoli stuff?
> 
> 
> JFS, 

most certainly not.
Maybe GPFS, but not JFS[2].
Wouldn't make sense anyway,
ripping an integral part off the OS,
in the hope some community will take care of it.

a bunch of stuff that went into Linux, etc, etc,
> etc. 

Would be interesting to learn about the etc, etc, etc.