[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Dave Froble]

On 3/9/2020 12:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/8/20 7:57 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/8/2020 1:14 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It's true that some people do feel that way, believing that if there is
>>> nobody to enforce the law that it is okay not to obey it.
>>>
>>> But that is a moral issue, and not relevant to the definition of what
>>> it is.
>>> --scott
>>>
>>
>> Just trying to understand.  (Right)  :-)
>>
>> So if I throw something (that I own and don't allow anyone else to
>> have it) in the trash, and do not give anyone else permission to use
>> it, and someone finds it and uses it, what is that?
>>
>
> It's called apples and oranges.  No one is throwing the IP that is VMS
> in the trash.  And to make things even more complicated, in most places
> dumpster diving is also illegal because throwing something something in
> the dumpster does not make it public domain it only changes the owner
> from the original to the trash company, many of whom actually go thru
> the dumpster looking for things of value.

So you're saying VMS will belong to the trash company?

:-)


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