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

[Dan Cross]

In article <tbp8s9$23mh7$1 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2022-07-26, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>
>> But again, why should VSI care?  They have nothing to do
>> with VAX.  If people started doing this for Alpha, Itanium
>> or x86, I could see it since VSI has interest in those
>> platforms.  But VAX is explicitly out of their domain.
>>
>
>Because how people behave in one area can be used as a proxy for
>how they might behave in other related areas in the future, especially
>when free stuff combined with a sense of entitlement is involved.

Right.  So we should go and find everyone who's using
a pirated copy of MS-DOS, or MacOS 7, or some variant
of Unix, or, well, all software, because then that'll
prove to VSI that we're responsible enough to merit a
hobbyist program.  After all, what someone does in one
area can be used as a proxy for how they may behave
in a related area in the future, and "operating systems"
are clearly a related area.

That seems more than a little obtuse.

I imagine that if VSI cared what happened to VAX/VMS,
they'd have licensed the rights to VAX/VMS.

	- Dan C.