VMs: Re: Bill Gates and the VMS?

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > [Nick Pelling:] The good news is that the VMS [shouldn't it
    > be "MS-V" now" --JS] will then get broken (by renegade Linux
    > hackers, running their tools on reverse-engineered XBox 2's):
    > but the bad news is that Microsoft's marketeers will make sure
    > that nobody believes them, to maintain healthy sales of the
    > MS-Voynich tool-chain.

I heard that a group of Linux hackers is already at work on a fully
free version of the MS-V: the "VoyGnuX Manudigit". It will be a
complete rewrite, without a single line borrowed from the MS-V, and
hence unincumbered by Microsoft patents or Beinecke copyrights. It
will feature words of unlimited length, sixty-four different hands,
user-configurable key sequences, and much more. Best of all, it will
come with *open* source text!

Rumor is that there is already an alpha release out there, which is
missing only a few pages and a couple of zodiac signs. The beta
version will be released as soon as someone volunteers to translate
the FSF Copyright into Michitonese.

All the best, ;-)

--stolfi