[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <tst72r$r3d$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <tsrmfk$b8i$1 at reader2.panix.com>,
>>cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
>>
>>>     Establishment of a developer ecosystem, crowd-sourced fixes
>>>     for bugs, security auditing . . .
>>
>>Can you be confident these things would happen? 
>
>There are many, many open source operating systems where that never happened.
>There are two very popular ones where it did.  Maybe three if you want to
>count ReactOS.  Statistically speaking, your chances are not very good.
>
>>People from the wider open source community would be facing an alien
>>environment that uses weird programming languages. They'd also have to
>>work with plenty of people who think things were better when DEC was
>>around. 
>>
>>It seems likely to me that an open source VMS would not develop a large
>>enough community to keep it going. Plenty of open source projects fail.
>
>The vast majority of open source projects fail.  The good news is that
>they are still usable and maintainable when they do, becase there is source.

Just so.

	- Dan C.