[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/7/2020 5:48 PM, Mike K. wrote:
> On Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 2:17:01 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> The technical capability is there. It's more a matter having the time and willpower to convince the legal department to allow such a license.
>
> That said, even HPE decides to leave folks with a parting gift of a perpetual universal license of VMS and the various layered products on VAX, the lack of a way to download the proper software and manuals will be a choke point. I hope that disc/tape images of the various Hobbyist CDs, condists, and documentation CDs are archived somewhere...
>
> Mike
>

Ayep!  On my shelf.

:-)

Got a VAX VMS V7.3 CD, and multiple copies of ConDist.

Also got Alpha stuff.  But that's different.  VAX VMS is static.  VSI is 
still offering Alpha releases.  At least the V8.4 2L1 and 2L2 stuff.  I 
don't see anything happening with Alpha VMS as long as VSI is selling 
support for their releases.  Could be hobbyist stuff for HP versions of VMS.

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