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

[rljenkin at gmail.com]

On Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 11:27:29 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/19/2020 11:54 PM, rljenkin at gmail.com wrote:
> First, without a license, you can still run VMS from the "console".  Not 
> networking and such.
> 
> Read up thread, a post by Terry Kennedy.  Quite interesting.
> 
> John Malmburg mentioned having a share, and petitioning the HPe board of 
> directors.  If a well thought out petition caught the attention of a 
> civic board member, perhaps he/she would gather support from other 
> directors and get us permanent hobbyist licenses.
> 
> A diligent searcher just might find on the web techniques for defeating LMF.

Thanks David for the response and suggestions.  Worth looking at.  I'd really prefer to be able to have the network functional since I hate having to run upstairs to the console to do anything.  Plus you lose FTP and network printing goodness.  :)

The permanent VAX hobbyist license would obviously be the preferred ideal, I'm just not optimistic anyone at HPe cares enough to spend any effort on something they've basically washed their hands of.  

Thanks again!