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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ffd214e4-6da1-40e1-aaf9-9f61a038b31fn at googlegroups.com>,
Oswald Knoppers <oswald.knoppers at gmail.com> writes: 

> > > 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. 
> 
> I am not familiar with this. Which PDP-11 OS licenses were scrapped?
> 
> I am running a PiDP11/70 with RSX11M-Plus. 

There was a hobbyist license from Mentec.