[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-03-26, motk <yep at yep.yep> wrote:
> On 3/27/24 04:44, David Goodwin wrote:
>
>> And for that matter, what exactly is the purpose of the Ambassador
>> program? Why should I want to "bring value to VMS Software" when VMS
>> software has no interest in bringing value to the community? It sounds
>> an awful lot like an unpaid job to me, especially with the requirement
>> to participate in meetings and "report on your work in the ecosystem".
>
> What ecosystem? A newsgroup? A few barely-maintained websites? The VSI 
> forums, where Mister Moderator clomps in at the slightest hint that 
> people may not be devoting their free time Generating Commerical Value 
> for VSI?
>

VSI management are either out of touch with reality (which based on past
experience is always possible) and are overrating their own importance,
or this is VSI moving to a managed decline model (where they extract as
much money as they can from a captive audience) without outright saying so.

I wonder if this is something driven by Darya or if any part of this will
change when she takes over (because she might actually disagree with it).

> Ooooh, I'm cross. Vexxed, even.
>

You sound like that character from The Librarians. :-)

Simon.

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