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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-14, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
> On 03/15/21 00:55, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-03-14, Dave Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, the stage is yours, please explain just what it would cost VSI if an
>>> entity that was never going to be a paying customer happened to run VMS.
>>>    I'll wait for you to think up something.  I'll have to be very patient.
>>>
>>
>> It's a matter of trust David.
>>
>> I feel sorry for you that you clearly unable to understand this.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
> It's a matter of personal ethics and we are all guilty of crossing
> that line, even stealing a pencil or sheet of A4 from work.
> I don't judge, as it's everyone's personal responsibility to decide
> their own actions, not mine and noone really gets away with anything
> in the end.
>
> However, for use of an obsolete OS that only hackers really care
> about anymore, the transgression looks pretty minor to me...
>

The problem is that the level of entitlement someone feels they have
when wanting to use an old OS in violation of the hobbyist terms can
be seen as an indication of how much they can be trusted if someone
offers something new on a hobbyist licence.

Didn't this already happen once with the PDP-11 hobbyist licence
when plans for a more generous PDP-11 hobbyist licence were scrapped
because of similar attitudes ?

Simon.

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