[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Chris Townley]

On Friday, August 14, 2020 at 10:20:58 PM UTC+1, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 8/14/2020 4:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Because: of the last line in the email from Hari
> 
> > *From:*OpenVMS Customer Lab [**]
> > *Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 5:05 PM
> > *To:* <redacted>
> > *Subject:* RE: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification
> > 
> > Hi <redacted>,
> > 
> > Good question.  We did discuss this quite a bit here, and there are arguments on all sides.
> > 
> > We would rather the hobbyists asked us directly, so we have an idea of the true scale.
> > 
> > However, it would be common sense, if you worked closely with a few hobbyists, to forward the PAKs to them. As long as the number is small, given that the license validity is limited, it should be okay.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> >                  Hari.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John H. Reinhardt

If you can, I would really like later dated AXP PAK - mine expire January 2021

Chris