[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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?


No. The message is different: if HP stops issuing legal hobbyist
licences, hobbyists will find other means to get their licences, and
those other means will be a questionable practice which may impact
commercial customers once it becomes known that you can issue your own
licences.


Back in the 1960-1980s, nuclear bombs were seen as a deterrent that you
never planned to use.  A self-generated PAK should be seen as the same
way. HP knows we have that capability, and that gives HP the incentive
to continue to support the hobbyist programme so that self generate PAKs
remain unused and little known.