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

[Dave Froble]

On 11/20/2019 1:57 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-11-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 11/20/2019 8:34 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> And why would VSI go for the last bit ? Generating licences will require
>>> access to certain resources that could be misused so it's something VSI
>>> will need to keep tight control of, if only from the legal liability
>>> point of view.
>>
>> You've mentioned "legality" in the past.  I'm not sure that is an issue.
>>   I'm also not sure that it isn't.
>>
>> Without publishing the agreement with HP, we cannot know what is in it.
>> However, VSI has said that they have full rights to anything they
>> produce, and, that they have the right to sell, issue, whatever, VMS
>> releases produced by VSI.
>>
>
> The HPE agreement is not the issue here. VSI will probably need to show
> that any hobbyist licences are issued in a controlled and appropriate
> manner. Giving up control of that process to someone not employed by VSI
> will make that a _lot_ harder to demonstrate.

If the agreement with HP is not the issue, then I cannot guess what 
might be an issue.  It sort of specifies what VSI can do with VMS, 
right?  And anything else is entirely up to VSI, right?

Ah, a control freak ....

You don't know that, and, I don't know that.

Probably best to wait and see what VSI does.

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