[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[John Dallman]

In article <v0k3n8$s9a$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

> A lot of it comes from the fact that due to corporate standards or 
> due to support of commercial applications, many Linux users are 
> forced into running RH or an RH-alike and they don't actually have
> choice.
> 
> Which isn't really systemd's fault, or really even RH's fault, but 
> it is a definite failing of the linux community in some ways.

As someone who produces commercial software for Linux, I obviously want
to support as many of the distributions that my customers use as possible
with the same build. Once you get into multiple builds and multiple sets
of testing, costs and inconvenience have a tendency to combinatorial
explosions. 

Doing that is just /easier/ if you build on RHEL, or its work-alikes, and
allows you access to updated compilers (via the GCC Toolsets) more
swiftly than other stable and supported distributions. None of the
software I produce goes anywhere near systemd. 

John