[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4f261430$0$2214$c3e8da3$a9097924 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > 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.

The file-sharing crowd have similar feelings about the "content mafia" 
they claim is suppressing their freedom of speech.  Kim Schmitz is 
looking at a 14-year jail sentence.  

> 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.

Methinks the analogy is being stretched a bit.