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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/10/21 1:36 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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?
> 

Sounds like bad planning on the part of the business.  Even the PDP-11
didn't just die one day. Same thing with Pr1me.  And I am sure most
other companies that have gone the way of the dodo.  If one suspects
they are running on a system with such a potential, it is part of
their due diligence to look for solutions before the day of disaster.

bill