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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/20/20 4:30 PM, Don North wrote:
> On 2020-07-20 01:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/20/20 2:49 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <rf4k1c$87c$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>>
>>>> You really don't get it, do you David ?
>>>>
>>>> If hobbyists cannot be trusted to respect HPE's terms and conditions 
>>>> when
>>>> HPE choose to grant them temporary free access to HPE's products, 
>>>> then why
>>>> should VSI trust anything that those same hobbyists will do when VSI is
>>>> considering granting those same hobbyists access to VSI's own 
>>>> products ?
>>>>
>>>> _NOW_ do you get it David ?
>>>
>>> I sincerely hope that VSI won't punish all hobbyists due to the
>>> misbehaviour of very few.
>>>
>>
>> Mentec!!
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> Is the remains of Mentec IP still owned by some random dude out in 
> Colorado?

As far as I have heard.  But there hasn't really been much chatter
on that subject in a long, long time.

bill