[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-14, Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
>
> Same.  The only way I run windows is in a virtual box on my MacBook.   I don't mind the more frequent licensing but I have the Alpha hardware, my home hobby environment, disks, third party products, compilers, etc so renewing the entire environment every 6 months, or giving up my decade-plus old environment would not be a  desirable move.
>

This downloading of a fresh system image every 180 days appears to be
the main problem, not the 180 day limit.

I wonder if VSI would allow you to export the licence database from
a newly downloaded image into your existing emulator system disk
image so you don't have to build a new system disk image every 6 months ?

Or are time limits built into the supplied emulator as well ?

There's also the lack of hobbyist licences for VAX and Itanium.

I wonder if HPE could hand over the existing hobbyist program to VSI
and allow VSI to run that instead, maybe with a bit more automation
to reduce or eliminate the ongoing manual steps which HPE appear to
carry out ?

Simon.

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