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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-11-18, kammerer001 at gmail.com <kammerer001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ???????????, 18 ?????? 2019 ?., 4:49:47 UTC+5 ???????????? Simon Clubley ???????:
>
> As for the hobbyist program, indeed, plans for one are currently being discussed by VSI but this student kit will be available no matter what decision is ultimately taken.
>

Does anyone at VSI know if there _will_ be a VSI hobbyist program in
some form or are the discussions at VSI about whether there _should_
even be a VSI hobbyist program ?

I don't see any prospect of HPE issuing a final set of non-terminating
hobbyist licences. After all, why should HPE go to the legal effort
of clearing that and implementing it when they are leaving the VMS
business ? We don't even know if it's even legally possible for HPE
to issue those types of hobbyist licences in the first place.

As such, given how long VSI hobbyist licences have been under discussion
without anything happening, there's a real risk here that VSI management
decide not to offer a hobbyist program for various reasons and therefore
the VMS hobbyist world may very well come to a sudden end in about a year.

Simon.

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