[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
> On 10/14/2011 5:07 PM, MG wrote:
> 
>> On 12-10-2011 17:51, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, since so far no one came up with the software I am looking for
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> I see you've been asking around for software as of late. Remarkable,
>> because you haven't given me 'particularly enthusiastic' impression
>> (to put it gently) when it came to your intention to share software
>> with others.
>>
>> - MG
> 
> 
> Sharing software with others can have legal consequences!  Expensive 
> ones. 

You don't share software in public places like this, do you?

> Someday you might be required to provide "proof of license" for 
> your software.

For twenty year old abandonware?

> It cost time and money to write that software and the author(s) feel 
> that they are entitled to be paid for their efforts. 

Whom should one pay for DECnet/Solaris? Sun/Oracle or DEC/HP?
Do they know it exists at all?
If you'd call HP (or Oracle), would they know what you're
talking about?
I guess you could even consider yourself lucky to find
an average HP guy who knows what VMS (or HP-UX) is.