29 May
2013
29 May
'13
8:09 a.m.
I wonder that since Quest is now owned by Dell, would
Dell be more open to this?
Thanks,
Brad Arnold
The problem (from the point of view of the owner) is that any sort of release
requires a time commitment to ensure that they're not opening themselves up to
claims for royalties from licensors, creating infrastructure, vetting licensing
terms, setting up download servers, etc. - and the net return is about zero,
as the software isn't sold anymore. Nice in theory, but hard to justify for the
company on business terms. MultiNet, TCPware and OVMS are still sold, so there's
a publicity motive - that and originally hobbyist overhead was taken over by the
openvmshobbyist/Montegar group.