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

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsui1g$hia4$6 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> Oh?  How do you figure?  Please be specific.  Or is that just
>> idle speculation?
>
>Before open sourcing Solaris was one the worlds major OS'es.
>
>After open sourcing it was a niche OS.

Correlation is not causation.

>That should prove that open sourcing did not solve its
>problems.

I never said that it did.

>Maybe it even made it worse.

This is unsubstantiated nonsense.

>Oracle decision to close
>source it again indicate that Oracle believed so. Given
>that it was their money, then they must be the expert.

Oracle: famous for making great decisions.

>>               Indeed, the tragedy of Solaris reinforces the
>> thesis that open sourcing is really the only way to go; pointing
>> out the failure Solaris shows what happens if you _don't_
>> embrace open source in a timely manner.
>
>That conclusion does not really match with what happened.

Hmm. Should I believe a) the people who were in the room at Sun
and made it happen, or b) you?

I'll go with (a).  Sorry, you've shown that your opinion is that
of an uninformed outsider with a pathological inability to
consider alternative scenarios, and a distinct lack of ability
to think logically.

	- Dan C.