From: gerard.calliet@pia-sofer.fr   
      
   Le 15/02/2026 à 17:43, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :   
   > DEC sought to provide a degree of ABI and API stability, which — *looks   
   > around* — clearly wasn't a particularly viable business model.   
   Somehow the heart of the problem.   
      
   Did DEC failed because of that?   
      
   Or particularly because of that the soldier VMS had a chance of   
   surviving in 2013, althought it could have been pushed in the "legacy"   
   hospice?   
      
   And yes one part of the problem is purely economic. What happens when   
   you're not exactly in the economic mainstream?...   
      
   But despite that, you survive?   
      
   Perhaps it's because there are some flaws in the main stream that   
   explain your existence. And your difficulties are just the sign of   
   future success.   
      
      
      
   Gérard Calliet   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)