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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:14:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:17:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> The VMS community's interest in taking on open source work is
> notoriously low.

Open Source lives and dies, not on the sheer number of users, but on the 
activity of the community contributing to it. The code doesn’t write 
itself.