[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

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In article <k8phtg1c91pkfs7acaq102c04g4kd5bneh at 4ax.com>, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> writes:
>On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 08:54:56 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>>On 2022-01-01, George Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> And we all gave Bruce Mitchell h%ll for wearing his infamous "Screw the LMF" teeshirt to a Symposium.
>>>
>>
>>I wonder, when x86-64 production licences come out, if VSI will take
>>the opportunity to implement much more robust licence keys that cannot
>>be easily bypassed (especially if they also take the opportunity to
>>start signing core images so that they can't be patched to bypass
>>such licencing).
>>
>>They obviously have no backwards compatibility licencing issues at the
>>moment with x86-64 so it's the perfect time for them to implement such
>>licencing changes. :-)
>>
>>Simon.
>
>Hola comp.os.vms companeros,
>
>Akin to cats and UFOs we come and go, manifest and demanifest, with a
>nonclalant disregard for the laws of physics, exemplary netiquette,
>and a philosophical disregard for the laws of intellectual property -
>in the specific domain of preserving and defending the heritage and
>legacy of the Digital Equipment Corporation.
>
>Alas, as much as we'd might otherwise, like to, we do not always
>meticulously follow the transactions and proceedings of the
>comp.os.vms college, but this particular conversation thread caught
>our weather, weathered, rheumy, ageing, prescription spectacled, eyes
>- there is a pertinent DECronym:
>
>FTFAJ: Fuck That For A Joke
>
>With specific application to the expiration of VAX licenses.
>
>Here is our RCE remedy from October 2012, the 35th Anniversary of VMS:
>
>LiBREVMS.LMFGEN.OpenVMS.Tru64.OSF1.ULTRIX.v1.2.WinALL.x86.x64.KEYGEN-VLF
>
>File-hosts:
>
>https://www.mirrored.to/files/0LOAT2SY/

... and this gets me what?

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