[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).

By the by, Phillip, clearly you are a man of strong opinions.

So what is your plan, roadmap and strategy for getting VMS out of it's
supernal funk?

Surely you have an opinion?

HP probably has a german subsidiary, is it listed on the stock
exchange? (showing my ingnorance about such matters), do you have any
HP shares? Ever envisaged in engaging in shareholder activism? The
owners of VMS are the sharehoiders of HP, management (very
theoretically) is there to preserve and extend HP's assets, and
generate revenue from them, on behalf of the shareholders, etc, etc.

Get embarrassingly pertinent information recorded in the AGM minutes,
etc.

Productive fun for the clean-handers.