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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-02, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/2021 7:26 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>
>> No, it is not commercial.
>
> You're being a bit too narrow with the term "commercial".  Think instead 
> of a resource that normally costs money.
>
> Academic or otherwise, number crunching for some purpose will cost, 
> regardless of the vendor.
>

Instead of commercial use when talking about licences, think in terms
of production use.

Academic number crunching is production use.

>
> This whole discussion is a problem for VSI, and it is up to VSI to 
> resolve it to customer's satisfaction.  Not something for c.o.v to 
> remedy.  If they do not satisfy the customers, long term, all they will 
> have is short term customers.
>

Since VSI management seem to be burying their heads in the sand,
then at least the comp.os.vms ideas might start _some_ discussion
in VSI about options the VSI management may not have considered.

Simon.

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