[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Michael Kraemer]

Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb:

> Such as trying
> to always use VMS based tools. 

If one can't use VMS for everyday work,
why bother with VMS at all?

> That might be of some fun
> but do not expect everyone else to adapt their routines
> just becuse of some die-hards that can't learn.
> 
> It would be enough to see the "US" part of "US ASCII" to
> understand that we today lives in a world that is slightly
> larger then the "US"...

I don't think this has to do with US vs the world,
but rather is a matter of the least common denominator,
i.e. the KISS principle which made Unix successful.
I for myself have no problem to write my name with "ae"
instead of the proper umlaut, if this is the price to be
readable just about everywhere.

> Common, we are soon to enter 2010 and to still have this
> "7-bit ASCII" discussion is just silly...

We are soon to enter 2010 and a couple of months ago there still
were discussions on TCPIP on VMS. What does this tell us
about VMS?