[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <i4iqkn$hu8$1 at news.eternal-september.org>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> HP sent me a email overnight confirming this.

Looks like bad news for hobbyists, or is there a provision?

Presumably, assuming it is still OK for a hobbyist to borrow media, a 
hobbyist could borrow patches from someone with a support contract.  But 
it is more hassle.

Or does this mean the end of the hobbyist programme?

> I assume this procedure will now stop working so I really hope HP have a
> automated notification procedure which causes a email to be sent as soon as
> a new patch is issued. It would be a major pain to have to login to a system
> daily and manually pull up a list of patches and work out what has changed
> from yesterday.

WGET?  Runs fine on VMS.