[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/7/2020 6:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>>> 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.

That is also my take.

HPE does not not do something if there is no reason not to - they only
do something if there is a reason to.

There is no business reason for HPE to help VMS VAX hobbyists.

In fact there is a small reason to not do so. The time
of the lawyers and senior management people to produce such
a statement will be seen as a cost by HPE.

Arne