[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Dan Cross]

In article <tt5324$505$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>David Goodwin  <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> 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.
>
>This is likely true, but how are you going to convince someone at HPE of this?
>It's not like VSI has any choice in the situation.

This is why I mentioned Sun earlier, though most people seemed
to utterly miss the point by fixating on Sun's eventual failure.
But the critical observation was Sun was able to do this with
Unix, which seemed like an impossible task at the time...until
it actually happened.

So there is precedent.

	- Dan C.