Allow me to ask a _extremely_ stupid question: have there been any
efforts to port one of the existing C libraries to VMS ? (gnu c
library, BSD library, etc) Perhaps as part of the semi-abortive FreeVMS
project ? How desperately ugly would that be ?
Alternately, could vms-perl steal code from these libraries to help fill
in missing behavior ?
-- Pat
Jordan Henderson wrote:
>
> I hardly think of that Open Sourcing the Compaq C RTL is
> equivalent to giving away the crown jewels. It's certainly
> a far cry from Open Sourcing OpenVMS itself.
>
> I don't think it's a panacea, but I don't really see the
> downside either... I think the resistance to the idea
> is primarily cultural, rather than for valid technical or
> marketing reasons. In fact, it could give OpenVMS and
> Compaq something of a marketing shot-in-the-arm.
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