[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/17/2020 4:46 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <memo.20200717185733.2644J at jgd.cix.co.uk>, jgd at cix.co.uk
> (John Dallman) writes:
>> In article <reskgq$aup$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
>> (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wrote:
>>> I don't know how much it would cost.  Someone could collect money
>>> from those interested, say, $500 per person, and when a substantial
>>> sum comes together, ask HPE if they are interested.  If they say
>>> that it will cost more, then get more people to pay in and/or get
>>> them to pay more.
>>
>> Do you think you can get 200 people to pony up $500 each? I think that's
>> the minimum you'd need to have any chance of interesting HPE in doing the
>> legal work. Their lawyers have plenty to do.
> 
> I don't plan on doing it, but I don't think that that is completely
> unrealistic.  I'm sure that there are a couple of hundred people still
> running VAXen as a hobby, and $500 is probably less than they pay for a
> year of electricity for them.
> 
> Of course, someone would have to organize this, goto HPE and offer
> $100,000 in return for the production of such a license, and if they say
> no then refund at least almost all of the money.  Would such a license
> be only for those who paid?  If so, could they sell them?  If there is
> just one license, could the consortium make it available to others?  For
> a fee?  There would be many details to work out.

Finding 200 x $500 may be tough but are not totally unrealistic.

But I doubt that HPE will be interested.

HPE is a XX B$ company. 100 K$ is nothing for HPE.

I suspect that you can't get the attention of anyone with
real power within HPE for less than 10 M$.

But OK - I don't know anything about how HPE works internally - I
could be totally wrong.

Arne