[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Alexander Schreiber]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2019-11-16, Alexander Schreiber <als at usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody know what the current state of the OpenVMS hobbyist program
>> is, if it is still alive?
>>
>
> It should be.

Good to know, thanks.

> The Hobbyist program is managed by VMS Engineering in India so
> responses to hobbyist requests are done on India business time.
>
> Did you fill in the field which asks what you are using the
> hobbyist program for ?

Yep, IIRC "Hobbyist use and learning about VMS" or something like that.

> It's not marked as mandatory, but HPE have refused to process
> licence renewal requests of mine in the past until I filled in
> that field.
>
> BTW, to any VSI people reading this, do you know what the current
> state of the VSI hobbyist plans are ?

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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