[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <k5e9reF3sueU1 at mid.individual.net>,
Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>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].

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/fs/jfs?h=next-20230217

>Wouldn't make sense anyway,
>ripping an integral part off the OS,
>in the hope some community will take care of it.

See above.

>a bunch of stuff that went into Linux, etc, etc,
>> etc. 
>
>Would be interesting to learn about the etc, etc, etc.

: spitfire; pwd
/home/cross/reference/linux
: spitfire; git log | grep '^Author: .*ibm.com' | wc -l
   24615
: spitfire;

Feel free to browse the commits.  Evidently some
will be very surprising to you.

	- Dan C.