[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<362e3c1e-aea8-44e9-9802-c98a3fb82f49 at c20g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
"Mike K." <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com> writes: 

> While I find the quasi-Che rhetoric to be entertaining, I still feel
> that it's not right to pirate software. Especially when there are FREE
> and LEGAL ways to use that software. It would be one thing if HP
> discontinued OpenVMS and ended the Hobby Program. Then, perhaps,
> QUIETLY circulating something like this might be morally (if not
> legally) acceptable. But to post openly on a newsgroup and to insult
> the Hobbyist Program as "gruel slopped out by HP" is just plain wrong
> and is far more likely to pull the plug of OpenVMS's life support (to
> use your rhetoric) than it is to restore it to full health.

As I've already mentioned, I see this as a serious threat.  Let's give 
him a couple of days.  If it is not taken down and no apology is 
forthcoming, all concerned should take legal action.  The more the 
better.

Note that Kim Schmitz is in jail.  Online criminals CAN be caught.  
Schmitz is looking at a 14-year jail sentence.

What this person is doing is illegal.  Thus, this is a criminal case,
not a civil case.  As far as I know, in every country in the world
reporting a crime to the police does not cost anything to the one who
reports it.  Unless the one reporting requests otherwise, legal
proceedings will be between the state and the accused.

In Germany, one can report a crime to the police via a web form.  It 
takes a couple of minutes.  I have done it before.  If you think you are 
safe because I report it in Germany (and you are somewhere else), again 
read up on Kim Schmitz.

I am not joking.  I am completely serious and if there is not an apology 
here in the newsgroup within two days I will take legal action.