[Info-vax] Real live example...

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Feb 21 22:06:18 EST 2023


On 2/21/2023 6:59 PM, David Goodwin wrote:
> The only guarantee of a future is for the source to be made available under
> a worthwhile license. Without the source there are no long-term guarantees.

There is no guarantee with source either.

The vast majority of VMS customers are not interested
in maintaining an OS.

Having the possibility to take the VMS source code,
make fixes and do a build does not change anything,
because they don't want to do that.

Arne




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