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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-23, cao... at pitbulluk.org <caoimhe at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
> Perhaps in the not so distant future, HPE will offload its remaining interest in anything VAX-related  (DEC did with PDP-11, RSTS/E and RSX-11 when it sold it all to Mentec) to someone who will offer free non-commercial usage licence paks. However, if that someone were Stromasys, in an attempt to prolong the life of their VAX emulation products, I can imagine they'd attempt to charge hobbyists a fortune. They don't even offer time-limited evaluation of their offerings free of charge.

Actually, I thought DEC only sold the rights to develop the PDP-11
operating systems to Mentec and that HPE, to this day, still actually
own them.

IOW, I thought the VSI licencing agreement with HPE is basically a
repeat of what DEC did with Mentec.

However, I may be wrong about this, so could someone confirm if I am
right or not ?

Thanks,

Simon.

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