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

[chris]

On 12/14/21 15:07, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article<spa1bp$1ifa$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris
> <chris-nospam at tridac.net>  writes:
>
>> On 12/14/21 05:35, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article<sp8itv$nn5$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com>   writes:
>>>
>>>> I guess it's useless.  There are some, (like those against Cobol), who will
>>>> never admit that a vendor has a moral, if not legal, responsibility to customers.
>>>
>>> A vendor has to live up to the contract and should not do anything
>>> illegal.  No more, no less.
>>>
>>> Moral responsibility?  Who gets to define "moral"?  That open's
>>> Pandora's box.
>>
>> It's the intangibles like that that form part of the establishment of
>> trust in a business relationship...
>
> Sure, but your options are to continue to do business or cease to do
> business, not claim some moral right to do something.
>

No one is suggesting that it does. The law is only relevant insofar
as it is enforced, but that's a different kettle of fish from the
ethical considerations and matters of implied trust between vendor
and client.

The number of people who continue to make excuses for shoddy
treatment from vendors never ceases to amaze me...

Chris