[Info-vax] report of the last "rendez-vous autour de VMS" (2-FEB-2024)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-04-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
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> - CVE reporting program

About bloody time. :-(

VSI should have done this as soon as they started shipping products.

Don't forget these are the same jokers who _finally_ introduced a
public security reporting mechanism in the immediate aftermath of
the DCL issue and then silently removed it from their website some
time later after the fuss had died down. :-(

I can't even begin to imagine the mentality of people who think that
was an appropriate thing to do.

I wonder what has driven this sudden change and if this will be more
permanent than it was the last time around ?

[snip]

>
> It may be time-consuming and VSI has limited resources, but given
> that >70% of code used in modern solutions is open source code
> and because VSI has limited resources, then it very important
> for VSI to get the VMS open source collaboration working!!
>

Don't forget that they now ship Perl as part of the x86-64 kit and
that was only possible because of the work Craig has put into making
the public distribution continue to work on VMS.

Simon.

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