> Despite our initial aspirations for robust community engagement, the reality has fallen short of our expectations. The level of participation in activities such as contributing open-source software, creating wiki articles, and providing assistance on forums has not matched the scale of the program.

Putting aside the substance of this announcement, the way it is worded doesn’t make a good impression. It comes across as “we are disappointed our dreams of getting open source developers to do work for us for free didn’t come to pass”. Talking like that is not encouraging those dreams to come true.

I have never run OpenVMS, but sometimes I daydream about installing it, even having a go at porting some software to it-just as a hobby. But thus far I haven’t got around to it. Hearing this attitude from the company that owns it, is making me think, maybe my “not getting around to it” was fortuitous