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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/10/2021 1:34 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <serm6d$onk$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes:
>> On 08/09/21 17:19, chris wrote:
>>> business headed,
>>
>> Typo: business headed, should read, business model.
>>
>> LMF type systems belong to a past age of greed, mistrust and
>> assumptions about customer honesty and have no place in the
>> modern age. One of the primary reasons why vax and vms was
>> dumped by so many uni departments and businesses, but some never
>> learn.
>
> So people are less greedy now than 20 or 30 years ago?  I doubt that.
>
>> Similar problems with embedded development tools, and compilers
>> in the past, where the software install was node locked,
>> sometimes with a dongle as well. Endless problems if it was
>> necessary to install on different machine, with vendors even
>> charging  a fat fee for the "privilege". Open source tools
>> changed that forever, just as open source operating systems
>> changed the os market as well.
>>
>> Dump LMF comletely, free to download and evaluate or for non
>> commercial use, but subscription support contract model for
>> ongoing patches and updates, jsut as everyone else does...
>
> If you want open-source software, use it, but that is irrelevant to the
> discussion of VMS, since VMS is not open source.
>

The thing is, he isn't talking about "open software" as it's generally 
understood.  He's talking about ease of access to any software for 
non-commercial use.

This ease of access is definitely useful to software vendors.  People 
cannot "buy" what they don't know about.

As for the few who worry about "cheaters", most reputable businesses 
audit their software usage to insure they are completely legal.

No business wants to be know as "cheaters", because the reputation may 
spread far beyond it's use of software.  They can be in big trouble if 
people avoid purchasing their products due to a bad reputation.

Will there be a few unreputable users?  There is always the few, in just 
about anything, and you'll never reform them, and it's not worth the 
trouble to try to do so.  The "hit" you may take with reputable 
customers just isn't worth it.

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