[Info-vax] VMS License Generator

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2012 10:53 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.

That is eaxctlt the same as I am talking about.

> 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.

Forcing someone to do certain things under the threat of
illegal activities is illegal in itself and could in the US
possible be punishable as racketeering - that is up to
20 years in jail per count.

Arne