[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:56:01 +0000 (UTC),
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

>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).

Uh, no, I thought we made that unambigously clear.

If you are, or wish to be, a public advocate of VMS (rather than a
public advocate of HP management policy on VMS) and you have
continuing access to hobbyist licences, then continue to use them.

However a VPA (VMS Public Advocate) [What would we be without our
Technical Abbreviations?] must also - as no doubt many have done over
the years - must give regard to how deeply they pull their heads in,
how hard they bite on their tongues and otherwise gaffer tape their
mouths either because they have to eke out a VMS living by having some
commercial or employment relationship with HP - or they fear having
their hobbyist licences revoked.

Look, if HP management was serious about protecting their VMS asset,
they would no go about by monstering a sorry-assed bunch of VMS
hobbyists by raiding their bedroom/den/shed/garage/super-annuated
missile bunker VMS cluster.

The best way to protect their VMS asset is to actually, seriously,
promote it, advertise in the general and trade presses, cultivate
their existing customers, building their trust in their VMS
investments, and to pro-actively seek new corporate, government,
academic and institutional business.

When's the last time VMS has been actually advertised? - it's off the
radar.

Though the rot has been there from way back, even in the end-of-empire
digital days:

http://www.coloribus.com/brands/digital-equipment-corporation/

Look closely at the MESH advertisement, do you see any VMS gearage?

NO.

My favourite ad, of the times was the Rhinoceros made of zeroes and
ones, related to VMS's security credentials IIRC. Alas, I cannot find
a trace on the net of it.

Whilst the Shark is a mighty fine Totemic animal for VMS, the
Rhinoceros is a close second.

Saludos cordiales,

VLF::[Subcommandante.XDelta]