[Info-vax] Eisner's PAKs, was: Re: Can't get hobbyist licenses from Openvmshobbyist

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-01-07, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-01-07 20:05:29 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>
>>> As an aside, does anyone remember when the Eisner PAKs expire ?
>>>
>>> ISTR it was sometime during the winter months, so that's probably
>>> another job which needs taking care of.
>>>
>>> IOW, the above link may be useful information for someone here from VSI
>>> to pass onto whoever has taken on the job of bringing Eisner back up.
>> VSI has a PAK generator.  :-)
>>
> 
> That doesn't mean it's legal for VSI to use it to generate the Eisner
> PAKs however. :-)
> 
> I suspect HP would get seriously upset if VSI did that without
> permission from HP. Don't forget that VSI only obtained certain rights
> from HP; they didn't buy the VMS code outright.
> 
> Simon.
> 

So, they are waiting to run it on one of their new versions, to which 
they will have the right to issue PAKs.

Seriously, I have my doubts that HP is looking over VSI's shoulder, or 
cares much about anything they do.  It is VSI that will allow HP to sell 
some more itanics, and to continue to collect some service revenue.