[Info-vax] VMS/L&T SIG Tapes: Call for Submissions

[Arne Vajhøj]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <4ae4e727$0$275$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <4ae4e013$0$272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> or would it be better to combine efforts?
>>> The more the merrier.
>> I am not convinced that there are much benefits of having the
>> same stuff available from 3 different sources.
>>
>> Instead of having 3 people collecting the same stuff they
>> could join forces and improve in other ways (like having
>> source, VAX binary, Alpha binary, I64 binary, ZIP, VMSINSTAL,
>> PCSI etc.).
> 
> Well, it's only 2; the VMS Freeware CD collection is defunct.  If you felt
> so passionate about this, you should have spoken up when there still was a
> Freeware CD.

I was not aware that the freeware CD was officially dead.

But it does not change that I am still a bit skeptical about
whether the current status is optimal.

> The DECUS tapes are distributed to many people and therefore, availability
> is higher than single sourcing the freeware.

Single content does not mean single source. Other software distributions
are perfectly capable of providing the same stuff from dozens of HTTP
and FTP servers, torrents etc..

Arne