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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/10/2021 2:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

So what are you saying?  Everyone using VMS today should start a port and dump 
VMS?  Be specific.


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