[Info-vax] Ask the Wizard archives?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/23/2019 8:27 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-05-23, Mark Daniel <mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> wrote:
>> On 23/5/19 4:54 pm, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>> 8< snip 8<
>>> VSI lately published a "VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS Customer Technical
>>> Support Bulletin" that contained the following text :
>>>
>>> _________________________________________
>>> Knowledge Management Repository
>>> A searchable indexed Knowledge Management repository of HPE and VSI
>>> knowledge is currently under construction. Access to the knowledge
>>> database access will be available to VSI direct support customers in Q3
>>> 2019. Hundreds of articles from VSI and HPE will be available at launch
>>> in Q3. There are over 18000 additional articles loaded that require
>>> vetting and will be available in the knowledge base over time.
>>> _________________________________________
>>
>> Interesting business model.  Seems almost everyone else in the
>> online-age makes (perhaps non-NDA) information available gratis.  We all
>> understand that VSI is over-time and probably over-budget but it's
>> difficult to imagine there's any money (even indirectly) in the likes of
>> "Ask the Wiz" reboots.  Or have I misunderstood "VSI direct support
>> customers"?
> 
> I don't think you have.
> 
> I also suspect that probably means a VSI customer cannot answer a
> question in comp.os.vms by quoting in public one of these articles.

One can obviously not post copyrighted material without permission.

But it is the form not the substance that are covered by that.

So providing the information in ones own words should be
fine.

Arne