[Info-vax] The VSI Hobbyist program is Live!

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-29, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2020-07-29 13:37:54 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>
>> In article <rfrrqa$83b$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> 
>>> The licence allows VSI to remotely connect to your systems to check for 
>>> compliance and to require you to make such access to VSI available if 
>>> they ask for it. It's the last part of 2a in the agreement.
>>> 
>>> I am _never_ going to agree to letting VSI management do that.
>> 
>> Why not?
>
> Then you've through the end of 2021 and the end of the HPE licenses to 
> migrate off of OpenVMS.
>

I know Stephen, I know. Maybe it's time for that. :-(

> Absent permanent HPE PAKs... Rock. Hard place.
>
> It would not surprise me to see hobbyists in some future VSI version 
> required to allow remote access and telemetry.
>

Well, VSI have just granted themselves the right to do that in the
licence that everyone is so eager to agree to.

Simon.

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Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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