From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:58:56 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:   
      
   > Some bozo once wrote: "...VSI spends years creating an   
   > inevitably-somewhat-incomplete third-party Linux porting kit for   
   > customer OpenVMS apps ...   
      
   Still, not as many years as it took to port OpenVMS to x86-64.   
      
   > ... and the end goal of the intended customers then   
   > inexorably shifts toward the removal of that porting kit, and probably   
   > in the best case the whole effort inevitably degrades into apps ported   
   > top and running on VSI Linux.   
      
   If it was a VSI-proprietary Linux, then that would defeat the point. The   
   whole point about moving to Linux is that it offers you a roadmap to the   
   future, free of vendor lock-in.   
      
   > And I'd be willing to bet money VSI will need a number of modifications   
   > to the Linux kernel, too.   
      
   Not sure why. If Microsoft can make do with relatively modest changes to   
   get a Linux kernel into WSL2 under Windows, a much simpler, older OS like   
   VMS would hardly be a bigger job.   
      
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