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Subject: Re: VSI OpenVMS Webinar 6th June 2024 online
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:00:48 -0400
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On 6/16/2024 7:53 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:44:21 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> With the bad tradition in the VMS world the last 25 years of being very
>> interested in getting free stuff but not being interested in
>> contributing ...
> 
> That’s true everywhere. The GPL helps discourage that.

No.

The problem is not that the VMS community does not want to
contribute their work back to upstream.

The problem is that (large part of) the VMS community does not
want to contribute work at all.

Arne