[Info-vax] Update posted on VSI

[David Goodwin]

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 5:39:56 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-07-03, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> ><https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2020-06-11-community-license-updates/>
> >
> > So there it is in black and white from VSI  No VAX, not now, not ever
> > from VSI.  Just in case you didn't believe Robert Brooks many declarations
> > of the same.  Maybe someone can persuade HPE to create that one time
> > non-commercial set of PAKS. I won't hold my breath though.
> >
> 
> That last bit is very unlikely to to happen. What is the motivation for
> HPE to do that ? HPE have no financial motivation to spend the time,
> resources and legal costs to make that happen.

Where was the motivation to issue the extended two year hobbyist license? Or even hobbyist licenses at all from the time they decided to drop OpenVMS? There was no business need to have a hobbyist program for an OS that was only going to be on life support for a few years before going away entirely.

Issuing Hobbyist licenses has a cost. A cost they could have saved just terminating the program entirely a few years ago. So I'd guess someone inside HPE cares at least a bit.

I wonder if VSI has even asked their contacts within HPE if they could simply take over hosting the HPE hobbyist stuff or if VSI simply doesn't care about it so hasn't asked.