[Info-vax] HP Bringing the Hobbyist Program In-House

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In article <84130661-44e9-48d4-9304-57d01da6aa12 at w5g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>On Jan 25, 6:01 pm, ss <m... at thisis.invalid> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Hobby Licenses will no longer be available through this site. Details
>> of the HP's delivery of licenses to Hobbyist Users is still under
>> development and I hope that they will have an announcement soon.
>
>   That sounds like the HP way.  Disable the current working
>system, and then start work on its replacement.  I expect
>this to turn out about as well as the switch-over to the new
>(shiny) user-forum garbage-ware.  Probably won't be able to
>get new PAKs using a Web browser on a VMS system.

The problem I see with this lack of a ready-to-go transitional process
is that it is going to turn many, otherwise would be, good-intentioned 
OpenVMS Hobbyists into license infringing criminals when they can not
get their expired PAKs renewed.  They'll either run with their clocks
set to some date in the past or find a way to bypass the LMF.  

This is yet another HP precedent of "tossing the spanner" into the VMS
works.

IMHO, HP should belie the fears of all of these hobbyist by releasing
a set of PAKs NOW akin to the PAKs issued to DSPP members.  One large
file of PAKs which terminate (in a year's time in the DSPP case) until
they get this new hobbyist registration process in place -- if ever?

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