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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<3b7faa0c-9fb7-44ea-9538-3deb62080fbc at k10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Doug Phillips <dphill46 at netscape.net> writes: 

> a) Updates - patches for new features and new hardware support:
> require a support agreement.
> 
> b) Fixes - patches to correct non-specification conformance and
> security problems: publicly available.

Makes sense.

Another question: Presumably, when people bought licenses, they knew 
(whether or not it is in the contract I don't know) that patches were 
available for free and perhaps factored that into their price 
calculation.  The new policy changes this retroactively.