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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qr6be1$68t$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> On 11/21/2019 2:46 AM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> The problem is, VSI can only issue licenses, or whatever, for releases 
> that VSI has offered.  They cannot issue licenses for any releases of 
> VMS they did not offer.  Not "will not", but "can not".

Probably "may not".


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