[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2012 6:02 PM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
> 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.

Yes. That is the law.

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

BS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity

> 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.

There must have been thousands of music/film file sharers that
have argued that they would not have bought the product so the
company did not lose any revenue. And they all lost (if that was
their best argument).

Arne