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

[Chris Scheers]

gah4 wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 5:06:46 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> (snip)
>> If someone like your employer bought a system with a valid license 
>> and when it was no longer needed let you use it for personal usage 
>> but legally retained ownership, then I think it is perfectly fine 
>> from a license law perspective.
> 
> This leaves another thing that I didn't say above.
> 
> Often things like this are owned by corporations, not people.
> As far as I know, if the corporation is purchased whole, they still
> belong to the same corporation.  That is, there is no need to transfer
> a license when a corporation changes ownership.  (Which, technically,
> happens when stock is bought and sold.)

FWIW:

In the early 1990s, Lockheed purchased the Fort Worth division of 
General Dynamics.

At the time, they had VAXen everywhere.  From what I was told, when they 
went to renew their licenses, DEC/Compaq (I don't remember which it was 
at the time) said "What licenses?"

Admittedly, Lockheed did not purchase all of General Dynamics, but..

Lawyers were involved and Lockheed and DEC/Compaq did finally come to an 
"arrangement", but I don't know the details of that.

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