[Info-vax] A new suggestion to handle the temporary production licences problem

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/2/2021 4:41 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <ihopv8Fh2cdU1 at mid.individual.net>, Andrew Brehm
> <andrew at netneurotic.net> writes:
>> Perhaps the easiest distinction between commercial and non-commercial
>> use is system specs.
>>
>> Make OpenVMS freely available to everyone and let it use up to 4 cores
>> and up to 8 GB of RAM for free, then demand payment for more.
> 
> I can think of many, many commercial applications which could get by
> with far fewer resources, say a webserver running a webshop.

Depends on the volume and the technology used.

A modern web shop with all the bells and whistles do use resources.

>                                                              And I can
> think of non-commercial use which needs more resources, such as number
> crunching in academia.

Number crunching has turned into Linux only.

Arne