[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>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?

If anyone still has the capability to issue a public license for everyone,
that would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  Vax/vms is not a real
revenue stream today so there would be little or no loss.
--scott

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