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

[Joe Bloggs]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:40:17 +0100, joukj <joukj at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:

>Steven Schweda wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Do not be too negative. I can confirm that HP already has the infra 
>structure/knowledge how to do this:
>
>Part of my machines run on a educational license which I have to renew 
>each year. It takes me a few mouse clicks every year on a HP-website and 
>  receive the packs in my E-mail-box. The whole procedure takes far less 
>than one hour.
>
>              Jouk

This sounds similar, if not identical, to the process of getting 
(yearly) VMS development licenses via DSPP.

If so, I can alos confirm that the process works, and is 
relatively painless...