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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-08-09 17:56:40 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> That's great right until Castle Burlington burns down or isn't viable 
> to keep running any longer.

The castle "burned down" once before, and with the vendor having been 
presenting platform porting sessions. No SaaS license time limits that 
time of course, which is your central concern here. Outside of that one 
licensing detail, the remaining customers clearly already have a fairly 
high tolerance for the platform vendor disappearing.

If the SaaS licensing is a concern (and it may well be), then work with 
VSI for license escrow and/or for longer licenses and/or for longer 
support subscriptions, and/or review or plan or start porting, and/or 
start making the existing app code more portable, and/or expect to 
negotiate with whatever entity acquires the rights to the swamp that 
the castle burned down, fell over, and sank into. There are other 
options. Check with the local organization's corporate legal and 
corporate risk folks, too.

I've worked with piles of FORTRAN and which were and are fairly 
portable, and with other apps which are tied pretty tightly to OpenVMS 
features.  And I'm aware of apps that have already ported, or that are 
porting.






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