[Info-vax] Regarding VMS on a VAX. Just curious...

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rdqdda$31h$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

>  <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >A software license is largely a legal concept. Licence terms, and the thing=
> >s which can legally be done with the software, may vary for the same produc=
> >t in different jurisdictions. Sometimes the courts (try to) overrule what t=
> >he vendor licences want to enforce.=20
> 
> Right.  So if you were to get a court order from a judge permitting the 
> transfer of PAKs and overruling the line in the contract on the PAK that
> prohibits it, the vax licensing problems would go away.
> 
> And my suspicion is that if one were to take HPE to small claims court 
> requesting invalidation of that line, that HPE would likely not even send
> a representative because they don't really care about the vax product.
> 
> But until someone actually does that, we have to abide by the rules in
> the contract.

Right.  And even if a court did rule that way, it would probably apply 
only to the person who went to court.