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Aucbvax.5930 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Sat Jan 23 11:41:18 1982 Sources for VMS >From Samuelson@SANDIA Sat Jan 23 11:37:28 1982 Some folks seem to think that if you have enuf money you can buy the sources for VMS. While DEC does offer a source kit, I would not want anybody to seriously think that it is useable. What you can buy now is the source to version 2.0, but the current release is 2.4! So you have a choice, you can get 2.0 sources and put in your own mods, and stick with 2.0 until 3.0 sources come out, or you can include the latest bug fixes and new features from DEC and put your 2.0 sources on the shelf.

That causes, as you might guess, some real problems. We want to modify the sources to make it somewhat safer to run classified jobs on some of our VAXen, but DECs policy of not selling the CURRENT sources at any price makes VMS less useful to us. Does any body else have the same problem? or is nobody interested in up to date sources?

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