[Info-vax] VMS VAX License for personal Microvax 3100 Model 40

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Tue Jul 26 07:54:57 EDT 2022


On 7/25/2022 9:15 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/25/2022 7:19 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> So don't be surprised that some people speak up
>> against software piracy!
> 
> Is running VAX/VMS (which nobody seems to care about anymore) to play 
> with some old HW really piracy?  Even the question of just who is the 
> victim of said piracy is sort of unknown.  Without a victim, can there 
> really be piracy?

According to the messy copyright law we have, it is piracy.  Nobody will
ever change the law unless people speak up.  According to HP's legal folks
it is piracy.  They will never fix that unless people speak up.
--scott

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