[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Dave Froble]

On 4/27/2022 12:00 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <f83619d5-0856-458a-a044-945dbb203e11n at googlegroups.com>,
> dgsoftnz at gmail.com (David Goodwin) wrote:

>> This one I imagine is pretty easy to deal with at this point. HPE
>> has no further use for OpenVMS - its only remaining value is in
>> whatever fees they're collecting from VSI.
>
> It has another importance in the strange world that corporate board
> members live in. While they're getting money from VSI, they can make a
> case that they're exploiting the OpenVMS intellectual property. If they
> open-source it, a case can be made by shareholders *and their lawyers*
> that they're discarding an asset.

What knowledge or evidence do you have that HPe is still getting any money from VSI?

I've never heard of any such payments, but then again, perhaps such would not be 
common knowledge.

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