[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jg5iot$3eb$1 at solani.org>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de>
writes: 

> JF Mezei schrieb:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Comparing HP vs "the community" in cold war terms is quite a stretch.
> If HP were *that* serious, they could simply terminate the hobbyist
> program once and for all, revoke the issued licenses and after one
> year (at latest) sue everybody still using VMS and not being
> in their database of paying customers.

Indeed.  And anyone mentioning he is running VMS can, if he cannot prove 
he has a legal license, feel the full brunt of the law.  This means that 
no-one can publicly advocate VMS, which is probably what Ché's real goal 
is (if not, he's making steps in that direction).