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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-11-20, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> 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?
>

Once again Phillip, you are thinking purely about what you want without
thinking about the issues involved in that.

The question you need to answer is _why_ would HPE do this ?

Why should HPE invest the time, money, and other resources in investigating
this and making decisions about whether it is ok to do this ?

What is in it for HPE to do that ?

Simon.

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