[Info-vax] OpenVMS.org down

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
Fri Aug 5 08:43:30 EDT 2011


In article <4e3be2f1$0$23865$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>, MG
<marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes: 

> On 5-8-2011 13:51, Paul Sture wrote:
> > I my memory serves correctly the site started out running Tru64 on an
> > Alpha.  Unfortunately switching to Rdb licenses aren't cheap.
> 
> Isn't OpenVMS.org a non-profit organization?  I don't know how that
> would work, exactly, but wouldn't that entitle it for non-commercial
> licensing?  (Again, I don't know for sure, I haven't read any of the
> Oracle licenses or end-usage agreements recently...)

I'm pretty sure that there are no hobbyist or non-commercial licenses 
for Rdb.  There is, or at least used to be, something like a developer's 
license, but this implies that one is developing a commercial product.




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