[Info-vax] Trying to build a case for Benefit of OpenVMS Hobbyist Program being beneficial to HP

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <ja43rp$ci6$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > OK, we'll give it a go, despite some REALLY DEPRESSING stuff I heard
> > second-hand recently...
> 
> No no, I'm not interested at all...  :-)
> 
> Was that under NDA ?
> If it was, maybe you'd not write that at all... :-)
> 
> Was it depressing in regard to the hobbyist program in
> particular in regard to OpenVMS at large ?

Again, I don't want to dwell on it---I think we should concentrate on 
helping Bill.  In brief, though: I heard from two different people about 
discussions at the Technical Update Days in two different countries 
where the subject of patch access for hobbyists was raised.  At least 
during these two discussions no progress was made.