[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>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.

Yes.  This is what "abandonware" means.  It's software that is no longer
available from the manufacturer but which is legally constrained from
open distribution.
--scott

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