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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/15/21 10:13 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

Which does not apply to anything currently in existence.

bill