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

[Alexander Schreiber]

Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2019 9:31 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>> Perhaps HPe will turn over to VSI all VMS stuff they have, including the HP 
>> versions, which would include VAX and the hobbyist program.
>
> We have the VAX sources, and could, if we wanted to, build
> a VSI version of OpenVMS VAX.

There is no expectation of that ever happening, because why would a company
invest what I'm sure is by now a significant amount of engineering effort
for no gain whatsoever?

> We are not going to do that.
>
> Period.  End of discussion.

And nobody in this thread is expecting that in my opinion. The discussion
was around if there was a chance of either a continuing of the OpenVMS
hobbyist program (for which the effort is limited to the issuance of
licenses, a few orders of magnitude lower than a new VMS release) or an
open end by issuing of non-expiring OpenVMS hobbyist licenses - both
for VAX and Alpha, in order for hobbyist use of OpenVMS to be able to
continue.

Kind regards,
          Alex.
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