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

[Chris Hanson]

On 3/15/21 2:12 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> And so now VSI is supporting VMS, and VMS users have some recourse.  But 
> I have to now consider, should VSI for whatever reason not be able to 
> support their customers, what happens?
> 
> I sure don't want it to happen, but their business could fail.  Where 
> does that leave current paying support customers of VSI?  Will the past 
> repeat itself, or, will VSI do something to allow their customers to 
> continue to use VSI versions of VMS if for whatever reason VSI is gone?

Who actually owns the copyright on everything they have now? Does VSI 
own it, or do they have a license and HPE still owns it?

If VSI owns it, and they wind up in bankruptcy, I'll try to buy it. 
(Seriously. The rest of the VSI intellectual property too.) And I'll try 
to open absolutely as much of it as possible.

I was going to do that with Symbolics, but someone beat me to it...

   -- Chris