[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 1/29/2012 8:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/29/2012 7:13 AM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:04 +0000 (UTC), m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael
>> Kraemer) wrote:
>>
>>> In
>>> article<59f8099b-8ee3-4233-b15e-0da24fbe74ae at 1g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
>>>
>>> "Mike K."<madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Seconded. The VMS hobbyist program provides me with all the PAKs that
>>>> I need. Why should I bother with a keygen
>>>
>>>
>>> which seems to be weendoze only,
>>> so it should be off-limits
>>> for true VMSlings anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>>> that will just piss off the
>>>> folks at HP who give me LEGAL PAKs?
>>
>> Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen,
>>
>> You may be satisfied with the gruel slopped out by HP, but HP has kept
>> VMS in an induced coma in the ICU enroute to the Hospice and it's
>> inevitable death by unnatural causes.
>>
>> This LMFgen is the first round of resuscitatory medicine, to jailbreak
>> VMS out of the ICU and back into full health, where it belongs.
>>
>> Refer back in the postings to the topic entitled:
>>
>> "HP Bringing the Hobbyist Program In-House"
>>
>> Policy can be changed on whim and it looks like it is, and it does not
>> bode well.
>>
>> Currently the PAKS last for a year, now you have full independence
>> should you so choose.
>
> Going from being dependent on HP to being a criminal seems
> like a step down to me.
>
> Arne

Anybody who's at all familiar with VMS should be able to figure out how
to defeat the license check!  It's there to keep honest people honest.

Hint: no PAK generator or PAK is required.

My AlphaStation 200 came with VMS and DECnet PAKs. This was many years 
ago.  I think the occasion was the retirement of the AlphaStation 200.