[Info-vax] Latest Hobbyist license with VSI 8.4-2 problem

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/18/18 4:39 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <8f0d0299-b224-45c0-9a39-62b49fdc74f5 at googlegroups.com>, Hans
> Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> 
>> Correct, VSI does not issue hobbyist licenses. The hobbyist program is
>> run by HP and unfortunately HP licenses are not loaded on a VSI product.
>> So you must acquire VMS 8.4 for your system
> 
> One of the questions I asked at the first VSI conference call was
> whether there would be a hobbyist license for VMS on x86.  The answer
> was yes.  It seems strange that there wouldn't be for VSI Itanium.

There's nothing strange about a small team with massive amounts of work
to do making the free version of their product something less than top
priority. Some time after v8.5 and v9.0 are out and the licenses for the
x86_64 field test kits are about to expire, then VSI really needs to
start their own hobbyist program if they want one to exist.

Now if some reseller volunteered to administer the program and could get
approval from VSI to do so, then I suppose it could happen faster.