[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Dave Froble]

On 2/21/2023 10:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

Sources are only part of what's needed.  Design is also important.  Without an 
idea of what's to happen, most would just screw up what already works.  Like 
Harry said, a man's got to know his limits.

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