[Info-vax] VSI licencing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-08-04, calliet gérard <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>
> Our action having been visible on comp.os.vms, several contributions 
> have proposed other licensing modes that would be more acceptable and 
> would encourage investment in VMS. We have consolidated these proposals 
> in a message to VSI asking them if these options had been evaluated and 
> to tell us why they had not been selected.
>

Did VSI respond to any of the alternative suggestions you put to them ?

> Indeed, many roundtable participants confirmed that
> the current licensing model is widely rejected, to the point of 
> triggering plans to leave VMS. All those who expressed themselves 
> pointed out the difficulty in the current conditions introduced by VSI 
> to get a message of sustainability across to the management in order to 
> obtain the investments."""""
>

To Jan-Erik: you have now heard directly from users trying to talk
to VSI about this. Do you still think there isn't a problem ?

Simon.

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