Re: Itanium lap tops are needed now!

Dave Froble wrote:
> Maybe we should suggest to JF that if he has some money in the bank that
> he hasn't touched in years, maybe he should make it available to whoever
> wants to make a withdrawal?


If I had money in the bank that was stuck at 0% interest rate and
someone came to me and offered to manage that money with a change that
it might actually get me a return, I might consider it.


When you look at all the abandonned software since the Palmer years, it
remains hidden in a vault, not yielding any return to VMS and in fact
hindering VSM because VMS gets old/tired with very old software on it.

And since VMS management have no plans to ever update such software,
making it opensource might have a positive impact on VMS.

Consider making TPU open source and seeing it ported to Linux for
instance. Imagive TPU superceding vi as the default editor on Unix. VMS
would lay claims to this and the Unix community would start to realise
that there is value in VMS and they might now look at VMS as some dead OS.
.

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