[Info-vax] Entitled attitudes, was: Re: vax vms licenses

[Chris Hanson]

On 2/26/21 7:10 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> I seriously doubt that playing with VMS on VAX is a good way to get
> people interested in VMS, so that is a red herring.  Some people want to
> continue to run VMS on VAX as a hobby.  While I sympathize, sometimes it
> just isn't possible, and in my view it is way out of line to openly say
> it is OK to flaunt the terms of the license just because you cannot get
> the license you want.

It is possible though. Very easily, in fact. You keep saying it's not, 
but it is. It's just against the terms of the license.

That doesn't make it illegal in most jurisdictions; it's a civil matter, 
not a criminal one, and you'd have to be discovered and then whoever 
owns the IP would have to actually care enough to try to pursue legal 
remedies to

You seem to think that how hobbyists treat VAX/VMS will affect how 
companies decide to do things in the future. That's ridiculous. Any 
company that uses how hobbyists treat running an operating system on 
multi-decade-old hardware to inform their current marketing and business 
strategies is terrible at business.

Hobbyists who want to use VMS on VAX—and Alpha, and Itanum—will continue 
to do so with or without HPE and VSI's help. And as long as they're not 
costing VSI any commercial sales, why should VSI give a shit?

   -- Chris