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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> 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?
>

Because those who I work for are running VMS.
That's what currently pays my "food in the table".
And they are defenitely not using VMS for "everyday
work", if that implies common desktop "work". VMS runs
the production, nothing else.

>> 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?
>

This is not about VMS as such. It it about the proper tools
to read/write a newsgroup, and that has (today) very little
with VMS to do.