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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s2mckq$ls6$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > 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 ?

EXACTLY!  And it was also a former DEC product, familiar to many at VSI.