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

[Norm Raphael]

---- Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote: 
> 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?

ISTM that whosoever it is that is sanctioned for the Hobbiest Program should be allowed/able to maintain a pathway for the patches via a server or access for Hobbiests.  Only common sense - which probably will doom it -- but I'm a bit stunned that person has not initiated a dialog.

> 
> 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.
> 
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