[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <hcip5oFnk3nU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> On 3/7/20 1:12 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >  
> > Thus vax/vms is likely to become abandonware at this point.
> 
> There is no such thing as "abandonware".  VAX/VMS will
> continue to belong to HPE and their permission will still
> be needed to use it.

Right.  If they so desire, of course, they could place it in the public 
domain, or issue a general license, or sell it, or whatever, then if 
they do nothing, then the status does not change.