[Info-vax] A few tools for improving software security

[Dave Froble]

On 1/26/2024 4:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:04:13 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Not gonna happen. Not until well after VSI is a whole lot bigger and a
>> whole lot better funded, and is encountering some hard limits in their
>> chosen hardware platform and tooling.
>
> You tell me: either it is too late, or it’s not. If it is, then VMS is
> already essentially circling the plughole.
>
>> And I still haven't heard a sales pitch for which kernel to pick, as
>> Linux is but one of many fine choices. And GPL'd Linux quite possibly
>> not the best choice for grafting a closed-source commercial platform.
>
> Businesses like to take, but not give back, don’t they?
>
> Many have criticized the GPL on this basis, but one thing it has helped to
> ensure is a level playing field. That’s why so many businesses have
> adopted GPL’d software, regardless of their earlier carping--because their
> competitors had done so, and they didn’t want to be left behind.
>
> Compare the BSDs: there have been several startups over the years that
> took the BSD code and made it proprietary, because the licence allows you
> to do that. Most startups fail, as you may know. When those startups
> failed, their proprietary code died with them. And so the BSD ecosystem
> lost yet another bit of its lifeblood.
>
> But when startups build their product on GPL’d code, then if/when they
> die, their code lives on, perhaps to fertilize the soil where another
> startup can grow.
>

This reminds me of something.  Anybody remember the Sun employee that used to 
come here and harass us?  Andrew something maybe?

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