[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/19/23 3:48 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <tst9dd$dhc4$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

>> VMS does not need people that say:
>> - VSI please open source VMS
>> - someone please port GNAT to VMS
>> - someone please port Rust to VMS
>> - someone please port XYZ to VMS
>>
>> VMS need people that say:
>> - I have ported XYZ to VMS
>> - I have created ABC on VMS
> 
> How, pray tell, is one going to cooperate in, say, porting GNAT
> or Rust or LLVM to VMS, when all that development is being done
> in a highly proprietary context that by its very nature
> precludes collaboration?  Suppose somebody finds a latent bug in
> the OS that's tickled by the new compiler; how does one help get
> that fixed without the source code?  Sure, provide a really good
> bug report, but none of that helps people do what you claim VMS
> needs above.

You seem to be missing some context here and are assuming that open
source on VMS has never been done, that porting open source *to* VMS has
anything at all to do with the open sourcing *of* VMS itself, and that
the latter has never been tried.  All of these are false assumptions.