[Info-vax] Licenses on VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listing scans

[Dave Froble]

On 12/10/2021 1:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-12-10, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Case in point.  We at Consolidated Data insist that all our customers have
>> support for their commercial use VMS systems.  That is our ethics.  However,
>> should the time come when there is nobody to pay for such support, and the
>> license terminates, and VMS stops working, then I will bypass the licensing to
>> keep my customer in business.  That is my ethics.
>>
>
> Even ignoring the legal issues with that (and you know my position in
> this general area :-)), do you have the knowledge needed to actually
> do this bypass ?
>
> If you don't, where do you intend on getting this knowledge from ?

I'll defer answering that question, for now.

Instead, I'll ask these questions.

What is the problem, if there is nobody to question such usage?

What is your opinion of a vendor potentially destroying a customer's business?

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