[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/14/20 4:25 PM, bob.m... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, August 14, 2020 at 7:14:42 AM UTC-7, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 8/14/2020 9:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 8/13/20 11:03 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 8/13/2020 8:43 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On 2020-08-12, John H. Reinhardt <johnhre (deleted address)> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Even if the DEC/HP Hobbyist licenses work for them it's still terminating
>>>>>> on 1-JAN-2021 so it's of limited value.
>>>>>
>>>>> The termination date of the extended HPE hobbyist licences that Hari sent
>>>>> out is 1-Jan-2022, not 1-Jan-2021.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is still a "drop dead" date. No long term help there.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And many of us were not privy to the extended PAKs anyway.
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>> If you need them, let me know. Hari said we could send them to those that missed out after March/May.
>>
>> -- 
>> John H. Reinhardt
> 
> Are you serious?  I missed out because I didn't request the OpenVMS / Alpha licenses soon enough.  My license expires September 2.  If you are able, please send me a copy:.
> Or let me know if you can't.  Thanks.
> 
> Bob Mehlman
> VMS user since 1985 or so.
> 

Same here, I assumed.  I requested but apparently the cutoff was
very short and the unreliability of my Verizon DSL since the lockdown
kept me from doing it for several weeks.

If they don't care and said it was OK to share it, why not just post
it here?

bill