[Info-vax] Use of media with licenses

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-11-09, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <nvubsb$5fc$1 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>> In article <8nZXVshHoYXc at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 
>> 
>>> > If you have a BRAND NEW OpenVMS 8.4 base License and no media, is it 
>>> > legal to use someone else's media (cd's dvd)?
>>> 
>>>    The answer has varied over time.  At one time DEC said no.  For the
>>>    hobbyust program, the answer has always been yes, IIRC.
>> 
>> That's what I was referring to.
>> 
>> On the other hand, paying customers with thousands of machines and 
>> licenses usually didn't buy (never bought?) one set of media per 
>> machine.
>
>    Paying customers with 8 VAX 11/780, Two DECSYSTEM 20, and two PDP-11
>    didn't buy multiple copies of VMS, TOPS-20, or RSX-11M.

In the late 90s we seemed to get one media distribution per set of new
systems, which roughly related to one per cluster.

Conversely, we had cupboards full of HSJ50 User Guides.  For a while
they seemed unstoppable.

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