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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-12-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/10/2021 8:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/10/2021 6:59 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2021 4:56 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> We are talking hypothetical here.  I'm not advocating anything today.
>>>>
>>>> Don't vendors make a commitment to customers when they sell them the 
>>>> use of
>>>> something like VMS?  If so, and the vendor defaults, isn't that an 
>>>> issue?
>>>> Don't customers have any rights?  Is it really stealing to continue 
>>>> to use a
>>>> product that one purchased in good faith?
>>>
>>> If VSI sell you a license to run VMS from time 1-JAN-2022 to forever
>>> or from 1-JAN-2022 to 31-DEC-2023, then you have a right to exactly that.
>> 
>> But VSI also says you can purchase another year of support, right?
>
> I don't think VSI has made legal commitments that you will be able
> to purchase what you can today indefinitely out in the future.
>

I also don't think they have stated they will not raise prices
beyond a certain percentage per year in the future.

For the record, I don't think VSI would do something like raising
the prices by a stupid percentage per year, but any successor
organisation which bought VSI's assets may consider doing that once
they realised they had a captive market for the time-limited licences
(at least for the short term).

Simon.

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