[Info-vax] VMS survivability (was: Re: Rendez-vous autour de VMS" of January 31 2023 report)

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsu4oc$gfrl$2 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/19/2023 4:02 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <tstaid$dhc4$2 at dont-email.me>,
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 2/18/2023 9:49 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> In article <tsrr9q$5qhq$4 at dont-email.me>,
>>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>> On 2/18/2023 4:47 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>>>> In article <tsrfpl$4bfn$2 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2/18/2023 4:01 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>>>>>> In article <tsrdl6$4bfn$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>> But there are a few things to remember before
>>>>>>> considering VSI going that path.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Redhat is doing fine delivering support service. But
>>>>>>>       they may have done even better if they could also have
>>>>>>>       charged real license fees, but they cannot because
>>>>>>>       they mostly did not create the products and the products
>>>>>>>       are typical under GPL or LGPL. VSI can and do sell
>>>>>>>       licenses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> RedHat got started when the commercial Unix vendors, who did
>>>>>> charge for software, were still in their prime.  Which among
>>>>>> them are still selling licenses?
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of them are still selling. Oracle is selling Solaris.
>>>>> IBM is selling AIX. HPE is selling HP-UX. HPE is not selling
>>>>> Tru64.
>>>>
>>>> Literally every single one of those has been EOL'ed.
>>>> Every. Single. One.
>>>
>>> You can state that and sound totally convincing.
>>>
>>> The problem is that everybody that know how to use
>>> basic search on the internet can detect that it is
>>> a lie.
>> 
>> I think the problem here is that you lack the sophistication to
>> understand that small security releases (likely as part of
>> ongoing contractual obligations) do not mean that something
>> isn't EOL'ed.
>
>The term EOL has a very specific meaning in software.

Citation needed.