[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/14/20 8:35 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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?
> 

ES40, I hope.  I still need to get the networking to work.

bill