[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2012 8:43 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> It is not going to make much difference.  Every knowledgeable VMS person
>> should be able to figure out how to defeat the license validation
>> process.
>
> Not every person has the time to reverse engineer the LMF shareable
> image to figure out how to have it accept any licence, or always return
> "success" when an application asks if it has a valid licence.
>
>
> Having a background door available via some package you can easily
> install would be welcome, not as a day to day thing you use, but for
> some unforeseen circumstances where your hobbyists licences are expired
> and you can't get new ones in time (or can't get new ones period).
>
> Having this available as a backup also puts pressiure on HP to continue
> the programme, knowing that if they stop it, people will still continue
> to use VMS as hobbyists but with a hack to bypass LMF or generate their
> own paks.

So you want to send the signal to HP that VMS hobbyists are not
respecting licenses as a mean to force HP to provide legal licenses
to avoid fake licenses being produced?

That is a very very very bad signal to send!!!!

Arne