[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Fritz Wuehler]

> > 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.

Nein! They vill torture you one year at a time! Bwahahaha ;-)

Papers?! Ver are your papers???