[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/8/20 8:46 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <r42p8k$9s5$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I had the impression that some here thought that it meant that if it is
> no longer available from the manufacturer, then one somehow has the
> right to do what one wants with it.
> 
> That is not the case.
> 

No, but that is what most people seem to think.

bill