[HECnet] Re: Call to Action: Team is looking for contribution from OpenVMS and Open source community....

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
And what were they discussing? Hopefully something important.
Remember, at the moment HP has no idea exactly what VMS is and what it
originally ran on, then what it took over, and its final platform.
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
Haha.   After posting that email, I realized that they accidentally forwarded an entire conversation between two HP staffers discussing the email.

PR fail.

Ian

On Oct 16, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:

Hello All,

I just received the below email from HP.   Did anyone else get it?   It's quite interesting, but I'm also trying to figure out exactly where and when I told HP I was a VMS fan.   I don't recall ever getting anything from HP in the past because of my hobbyist license registration.   Wondering what others think about this - both from the 'HP reaching out' aspect as well as the aspect of promoting a port-it-to-VMS project.

Ian