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

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <m9m31h$asl$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> John Reagan wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 9:41:59 AM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm going to suggest that the entire PAK system with VMS be junked.
>>>> Now before anyone has a hissy fit, consider.
>>>>
>>>> Any legitimate commercial user of VMS is going to "follow the
>>>> rules". That's just the way it is, and if they are not, well, what
>>>> has been lost?
>>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that isn't the truth.  We had several legitimate
>>> commercial customers who wanted some license management facility to
>>> track all their licenses.  They were unsure of what they had (and
>>> perhaps HP was unsure as well?) and an architected solution to
>>> manipulate licenses was invented.  The additional aspects of version
>>> dates, release notes, etc. was all to help customers stay 'legal'.
>>> The added 'benefit' of using LMF as a way to prevent piracy was a
>>> secondary goal.  Later on, we realized that LMF also allowed new ways
>>> to license/sell products with things like per-user licensing,
>>> per-node licensing, icap, etc.
>>>
>>> John (who was part of the original group who designed these things)
>> All I'm saying is that preventing usage is non-productive.  So use the 
>> LMF to track what's installed.  Even better, include much more in the 
>> base distribution.
>>
>> Similar case.  Microsoft giving away free IE.  Why?  To increase market 
>> share.  To get people using MS products.
>>
>> Long gone are the days when you could sell OS software for big bucks. 
>> Much better is recurring revenue.
> 
> You mean like Microsoft's new model for their Office Product?
> 
> bill
> 

Have no idea, haven't looked at it, probably won't.