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- Path: sparky!uunet!eco.twg.com!eco.twg.com!larry
- From: larry@eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Subject: Re: How Open is Open VMS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.203220.11469@eco.twg.com>
- Lines: 24
- Sender: larry@vishnu.eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eco.twg.com
- Reply-To: larry@eco.twg.com
- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <1992Dec31.190236.29454@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 20:32:20 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Dec31.190236.29454@zooid.guild.org>, Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- |>Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- |>Path: eco.twg.com!uunet!utcsri!geac!zooid!kovarski
- |>From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
- |>Subject: How Open is Open VMS?
- |>Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- |>Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:02:36 GMT
- |>Message-ID: <1992Dec31.190236.29454@zooid.guild.org>
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- |>Could someone tell me how "open" Open VMS really is. Is it so open that
- |>someone can obtain the source codes, or is it another proprietary operating
- |>system with the word "Open" attached to it? Thanks.
- |>
- |>Mark K.
- |>E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
- |>
- From what I understand source code for VMS is obtainable.. but one must pay
- money.. I would'nt touch the "open" word debate for anything.... especially when
- talking about operating systems.
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- -Larry.
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