[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/7/20 2:14 PM, Terry Kennedy wrote:
> On Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 1:25:20 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Does LMF have the concept of "VAX" as an architectural restriction? I remember some early cross-platform PAKs had an "Alpha" tag or similar to enable the license to load on Alpha as well as VAX.
> 
> The reason I'm wondering, is that there are folks (including HP) who could issue PAKGEN licenses for Producer=DEC and the VAX architecture restriction, if such a thing actually exists. Is the VMS Liberation Front (who seemed to have workarounds for licenses) still in existence?
> 
> Obviously, it would be better to get the PAKs from HP. They could simply issue one last set of Hobbyist PAKs for VAX that don't have an expiration date as a goodwill gesture.
> 

I'm not holding my breath.

bill