[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 00:19:43 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> Much of this was before SSH was invented, and way before "open source"
> was the force it is today.

Open source was there practically from the beginning of the Unix 
workstation era (say, mid-1980s onwards). The first thing any seasoned 
Unix sysadmin did on a new machine was download, build and install the GNU 
tools. In the pre-RISC era, GCC was known for generating better code than 
the vendors’ own compilers. And in any case, Bash was almost always a 
better shell than whatever buggy version of sh or csh the vendor provided. 
GNU tools tended to have more functionality than vendor-specific ones. And 
so on.