[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2023 10:08 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

cost <> financing of cost

Cost also get spread out for commercial software - that
is what license fees does.

>> 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.

It is yet a few other examples of that open source as a
business model doe snot work for everybody.

VSI probably consider that a major point.

Arne