[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Dave Froble]

On 8/14/2020 5:21 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 8/14/20 10:34 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 8/14/2020 9:27 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 8/14/20 10:06 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>>> On 8/14/2020 8:43 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> On 8/12/20 9:39 AM, VMS Software Inc. wrote:
>>>>>> Dear community members,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After the community license was officially released, we saw many
>>>>>> questions regarding the license agreement and decided to review
>>>>>> the agreement once again and answer the questions before sending
>>>>>> out any licenses to avoid misunderstanding. Today we published the
>>>>>> amended agreement and answered the most frequently asked questions
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116&p=426#p426
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are now replying to license requests.Thank you for your patience.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yours respectfully,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> VMS Software Community License Team
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Got home from vacation to find mine waiting in my INBOX. Downloaded
>>>>> the stuff from the Community page.  Now I just need to figure out
>>>>> what a .ZIPEXE is.  Somehow I have a feeling it isn't going to do
>>>>> anything on my Ubuntu system.  :-(
>>>>>
>>>>> bill
>>>>
>>>> The ZIPEXE are self extracting ZIP files.  They only run on VMS
>>>> unfortunately.  Which is a bootstrapping problem if you don't
>>>> already have one running.
>>>>
>>>> That is probably another thing we may have to ask VSI change and
>>>> have them put plain "ISO" disk images in the download area that can
>>>> be written to disk or used as a virtual disk.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good that I got an explanation, but bad in that I have no working
>>> VMS that can do it.  I doubt they would run on my VAX.  :-)
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>
>> They might..  I did not try as I had a running DS10 with OpenVMS
>>
>
> How could a VAX run an Alpha executable?  Sounds like a feature
> I never ran into before.  :-)
>
> bill
>

It seems you have Alpha distribution.  On what will you be running the 
CL stuff?

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