[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Dave Froble]

On 8/7/2021 7:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-08-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> It has occurred to me that VSI should have the opportunity to know who
>> is using x86 VMS.  From the beginning, they implement some sort of
>> reporting scheme.  For VMS to run, it has to check in with VSI.  There
>> may be situations where such is not feasible, but, that can also be handled.
>>
>
> SOD THAT !!!!!

I didn't say it would be a good idea, it was just something I thought 
of.  Something like that would have been much harder (or impossible) in 
the 1970s and 1980s.  But today, the concept of always knowing who is 
running VMS might be interesting.

Perhaps it would require all VSI employees to have a top secret clearance.

:-)

> That raises all kinds of security and denial of service issues.

Perhaps, and perhaps there would be solutions.

> People could be persuaded to allow this for a one-time licence
> activation process but there's no way that many people are going
> to allow that on an ongoing basis as part of the boot process and
> then stop the boot if the check in with VSI fails.

Maybe it would not stop booting and running?

> What happens if you have external communications down ?

Phone call?  Oh, wait, phones are "communications".

> What happens if VSI have system availability issues ?

Phone call?

> What happens if VSI goes bust ?

Seems like we already got that ...


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