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

[Andrew Brehm]

On 03/06/2021 12:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-06-03 kl. 12:24, skrev Andrew Brehm:
> 
> The current roadmap has Alpha "Standard Support" into 2030 (as long
> as the current roadmap reaches). But it also depends on what you
> mean with a "new version". An Alpha 8.4-2L3? We don't know.
> 
> Anyway, for those a 1-2 core x86 VM will probably be "enough".
> Should those production systems be free?
> 

No. But I think they ought to keep running if unlicensed.

You are confusing enforcement mechanism with price policy.

I have not commented on how much OpenVMS should cost and what uses should be free. I just thought collapsing a running system to using at most 4 cores and 8 GB of memory would be an acceptable way to deal with forcing licence and support renewals and would allow for easier adoption among hobbyists, developers and sysadmins.