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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qr3dqa$j3k$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> Unless something dramatic happens, I suspect there will be no VAX hobbyist
> licence of any kind after the end of 2020, regardless of whatever hobbyist
> program VSI may eventually come up with.

Perhaps, but what good reason is there not to have one?  Those people 
running VAXes in production have commercial licenses, which don't 
expire.  No-one will say "how, I can get a hobbyist license, I'll set up 
my new commercial application on a VAX and save on license costs, even 
though it is against the rules".  If anything, people running VAXen in 
production will be paying for support, not for licenses, but will that 
be available from any of the (current or former) owners of (some aspects 
of) VMS?