[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/7/20 1:25 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 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?
> 

I see no likelihood of that ever happening.

bill