[Info-vax] The Doom of VAX VMS Hobbyist Licenses?

[Dave Froble]

On 7/20/2020 9:04 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-07-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> A diligent searcher just might find on the web techniques for defeating LMF.
>>
>
> Since that comment shows you don't care about the legal or ethical
> aspects of this, I will instead comment on the practical implications
> of the above statement:

I think Terry Kennedy has pointed out a legal possibility.

Ethical?  Come now Simon, what ethical questions?  VAX/VMS is not a 
commodity with any value to the IP owner.  Hasn't been for some time now.

In my opinion, yeah, we all get one, it could be considered more 
unethical to just deny the usage of something such as VAX/VMS to hobbyists.

> You have just added yourself to the list of people who are in danger of
> seriously annoying VSI when it comes to deciding on the VSI hobbyist
> licence and what form it is likely to take, if any.

The VSI CL is basically granting such capabilities to people, so, how 
could anything similar (remember, they will not be doing VAX, so it's 
not the same thing) concern them?

Anything, anything that gets VMS in front of people is a win for VSI.

> Or more concisely: seriously David, you as well ??? :-(

Your simple minded attitude of "it's mine" and "I'll take my ball and go 
home" appears to me to be the problem, not my attitude about people 
being able to still play with VAX/VMS.

For the record, I do possess a valid commercial license, so, it's not 
for me that I advance such ideas.

Perhaps I should post all my legal licenses here so you can see that I 
have them?

:-)

-- 
David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-0450
Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      E-Mail: davef at tsoft-inc.com
DFE Ultralights, Inc.
170 Grimplin Road
Vanderbilt, PA  15486