[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:39:01 +0000 (UTC),
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

>In article <fg4FbdAV$Y2j at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes: 

:

>> and many of us believe that certain provisions of, say,
>> the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, run roughshod over that
>> guarantee and might not in truth survive a constitutional
>> challenge.
>
>If so, then a court should rule that it is unconstitutional.  I think 
>that in such cases it is better to target the offending parts, rather 
>than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.  It is the "correct" 
>thing to do and has the added advantage that it is more likely to 
>succeed.
>
>> It's one thing to say you cannot copy a protected
>> work; it's another to claim you cannot publish a means by which
>> copyright protection can be circumvented.
>
>True, they are different, but depending on laws and court decisions, 
>both might be illegal.  It is one thing to kill a person and another to 
>pay someone to do so, but that does not mean that both cannot be illegal 
>just because they are different.
>
>Just to be clear: in this case, we are not talking about a copyright 
>violation, but rather something else.

Phillip,

I take it that this is your home page:

http://www.astro.multivax.de:8000/helbig/helbig.html

You should stick to splitting atoms, rather than splitting hairs.

You are highly educated and accomplished and no fool, stock exchanges
do not employ them - at least for non-managerial roles, and moreover
you have the good sense to appreciate and value VMS.

With only apparent contradiction the VLF (VMS Liberation Front) does
not, in fact, encourage people to use either the LibreVMS LMFgen nor
the LibreVMS PAKS that have been compiled for comprehensive
convenience, far from it, we do not encourage people to risk
trangressing any relevant laws in their resident jurisdictions.

In fact we encourage people to keep using their Hobbyist Licences and
to have them refreshed annually and legally via the HP OpenVMS
Hobbyist program in whatever incarnation.

And the VLF strongly discourages commercial or paid users of VMS from
exploiting the LibreVMS LMFgen, such entities and organisations are
not the intended target, if it is commerically abused, then HP
Management should proscecute vigorously such entities and
organisations and there is no hyocrisy in asserting that.

The LibreVMS LMFgen is a mark of respect and acknowledgement for all
the "Hobbyist" (we detest the term) VMS true-believers and die-hards
that have been preserving VMS mind-share for this terrible decade and
a half, or so, ensuring that the "pilot-light" is not snuffed out.

The VLF have yet to release their LiBREVMS MANiFESTO, which will
elegantly, systematically, logically, and comprehensively detail their
motivations, the VLF is not so anonymous as ANONYMOUS, but our hearts
are in the right place and our logic is sound.

Regard the LibreVMS LMFgen as a "Nuclear Deterrent" against any future
degeneration of the VMS Hobbyist Program, in one year's time, five
years, time, a decade's time and for the forseeable future.

Indeed the VLF encourage the comp.os.vms community to vent their
disapproval, publically, of the LibreVMS LMFgen novation, you are all
good, law abiding citizens, and we encourage you to remain so.

Though please bear in mind, for the preservation of your social
currency and credibility, the difference between venting your
disapproval, and systematically and logically justifying such
disapproval, the VLF advises to stick to the former and to avoid the
latter, a task which is akin to attempting to square the circle, you
have been warned.

The VLF discourages the comp.os.vms community from publically praising
the initiatives and remedies of the VLF, this community of die-hards
and true believers all possess modest Bacon-Erdos numbers and it would
not wise for any member of the comp.os.vms community to thus
publically praise the VLF and their work.

Indeed Phillip, perhaps you doth protest too loudly, and in your heart
of hearts you really understand and appreciate the strategic
opportunity the LibreVMS LMFgen represents in the regeneration and
renewal of VMS mind-share and corporate, government, and academic
seats.

Never admit it Phillip, keep dilgently building your cover story, the
VLF salutes you!

The VLF do encourage the formation of independent spinter cells of the
VLF, the splinter cells do not need to communicate, but rather post
anonymously the fruits of your endeavours to the Usenet Newsgroups
such as comp.os.vms, comp.sys.dec, comp.unix.tru64 and
comp.unix.ultrix.

We do envisage that HP Management may change the locks, but that would
be a declasse and infra-dig thing to do, on a minor release point.

If HP Management deign to change the locks, to protect, preserve (and,
Heaven forfend! - extend) their asset, instead of sitting on their
asset and their arses, then the VLF heartliy encourages then to do so
by issue a 9.0 major release point for VMS/AXP and playing catch-up
with a 9.0 major release point for VMS/VAX.

Apart from being dedicated to "Big Ken", the LibreVMS LMFgen is also
dedicated to "Project Emerald". If you are not familiar with it,
Phillip, perhaps a kindly disposed old-school member of the
comp.os.vms community, who is not a paid shill of HP management, can
explain what it was and what it could have been and should have been.

Poor OpenVMS, it has been locked away under the stairwell in it's
Itanium ghetto/slum for far too long, and now the "Itantic" is a
rapidly sinking ship (hasta la vista! and toute de suite!), HP Senior
Management is in a pickle, they "successfully" avoided porting VMS to
IA32, but how on earth are they going to avoid porting VMS to
IA64/AMD64?

The VLF are sure they will think of something.

When is the last time that OpenVMS ran natively on a laptop? - AFAIK,
it was the Alpha Tadpole, back in the early nineties, some two decades
ago, two decades!

Some velvet morning in some future utopia, alas, probably relegated to
visionary science-fiction, will we see the equal options of microsoft,
linux and VMS operating systems being able to be pre-installed on all
stratas HP Intel hardware, desktop, laptop, corporate and enterprise?

Probably not, HP now prides itself on being the "World's largest PC
company", how the mighty have fallen, but the bit-rot set early in,
when the HP-16C programmer's calculator was discontinued, and look at
the recent debacle with the (nee Palm) WebOS, again, Hewlett and
Packard would be rolling in their graves.

The only thing stopping HP management being supine and being
vertically integrated into the Microsoft empire is anti-trust
legislation, there is no respect for the HP brand, it's history or
it's legacy amongst senior HP management, if there was, they would be
vigorously promoting the crowning jewel in their intellectual property
treasure chest, which as we all know, is OpenVMS, and as is manifestly
apparent, and apparent for far too many years, they are not vigorously
promoting OpenVMS.

The domestic desktop is now the enterprise, it's all 64 bit (though 32
bit hardware is not obsolete and never has to be, it's perfectly fine
for running VMS/VAX on an emulator).

"Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?"

This has been a COMMUNiQUE from the VMS LiBERATiON FRONT.

Mediocritatem esse deleta!

Saludos cordiales,

Subcommandante XDelta
p.p. The VMS Liberation Front