[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <r40o5r$mq1$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> The problem is that the licenses are not transferrable.  I have boxes of
> old PAKs which were included when I bought old vaxen, but it's not legal
> for me to use any of them (even though from a technical standpoint they
> would all function).

At some time one could pay a $300 transfer fee to move the licence to a 
new owner.  Not sure if that is still possible.

> If someone who owned the rights were to declare that old licenses were
> transferrable, it would fix pretty much all of the problems with issuing
> hobbyist licenses and fix the problems resulting from an inability to issue
> new vax licenses.  Unfortunately that someone is likely HPE, and nobody
> there really has any interest in the matter.  

What would be the point?  If they don't mind people running it and won't 
make any money, why not just issue a public licence for everyone?