[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:52:11 +0000 (UTC),
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

>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.

Dear Herr Helbig,

Absolutely no disrespect was implied, declared, or intended, for those
good souls that have created, preserved and maintained the OpenVMS
Hobbyist program and facility in it's previous incarnation, for all
these years, far from it, it has been a labour of love and the VLF
acknowledges, respects, and celebrates that.

The opprobrium of the VLF is directed squarely and solely at HP senior
management and they full well know what crimes against VMS they have
serially and severally perpetrated in their penny-wise and
pound-foolish policies.

>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.

No apology will be forthcoming.

The apology that needs be forthcoming is from HP Senior Management for
forcing this situation through the malign neglect of their asset,
which is a crime against the intellectual and computing science
commonwealth of humanity.

>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. 

Sometimes the real cost and damage is to their self-respect, their
dignity, their deep humanity, and to their integrity, if they were
only aware of it.

Many laws are criminal, it depends on your perspective on civil
society.

>Unless the one reporting requests otherwise, legal
>proceedings will be between the state and the accused.

Are you defending VMS or HP Senior Management? - Please try to keep
the two separate in your mind.

VMS was an orphaned asset of the late, great, Digital Equipment
Corporation, which was purchased by Compaq, who did not have the wit
or wisdom to do anything with it, and comprehensively dropped the
ball, Compaq thence merged with HP during the regime of the wicked
witch, Carly Fiori. which thankfully passed into the fiefdom of Mark
Hurd, who, alas, neglected the asset as well.

Cupidity or stupidity? - history will be the judge.

Just as when you marry, there is no implicate right to abuse or
neglect your spouse, just as when you have children there is no
implicate right to neglect or abuse your children, just as when you
purchase a pet animal there is no implicate right to abuse or neglect
the animal...

Alas this is where that analogy falters, if a corporate purchases an
asset, they can damn well do what they please with it, regardless if
it the greatest commercially derived operating system on the planet. 

The crime (against humanity) is what HP Senior Management have done,
or more precisely not done with their currently owned VMS asset.

What crime is there in the creation of the LibreVMS LMFgen?

If you use the licences so generated to keep your non-commercial
hobbyist VMS systems operating, there is a theoretical and
questionable "criminality" admittedly, but you are not defrauding or
depriving HP of any revenue streams.

No one has to use it, and the VLF encourage all not do so - so long as
there is a respectful, equitable and accessible VMS Hobbyist Program
in place.

>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.

Such an assertion is a tad "STASI" but do what you will, if venting
your currently confused spleen makes you feel better.

>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.

And, if you wish, contact all the relevant cyberlockers and filehosts
with takedown requests, in a post MegaUpload meltdown world, I am sure
they will be responsive, but bear in mind that it will be a
supernumerary effort and a waste of attention cycles, on you part.

The LibreVMS LMFgen v1.1 Beta will be uploaded to alt.binaries.warez.

Saludos cordiales,

Subcommandante XDelta,
p.p. The VMS Liberation Front