[Info-vax] OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/9/20 4:36 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <hcn9r2Fm1d3U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>> And while I'm being my regular asshat, I'm going to question whether
>>>> Phillip is actually a hobbyist user.  He uses VMS for things that people
>>>> purchase products, such as WEENDOZE.
>>>
>>> Yes, but only for personal, non-commercial stuff.
>>
>> That is an interesting point.  Other than the non-commercial
>> clause I don't believe anything list what can and can't be done
>> under a Hobbyist License.
> 
> It does have to be personal.  One couldn't use it, say, for support of a
> non-profit institution (which is by definition non-commercial), because
> that isn't "personal use".
> 
>> That was the problem with the later Educational Program that
>> I talked with HP about while still working at the University.
>> It was much more detailed and while I don't know of any school
>> that actually used it, it was virtually impossible to do so
>> without violating the small print.  I can think of no school
>> legal department that would have signed off on its use.
> 
> Certainly the old DECcampus was very widely used.
> 

I was talking about the last one from HP,  not anything that
dated back to DEC days. (Thus why I said "the later one")

It was discussed here for a while.

bill