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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-29, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/29/2022 8:59 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-07-28, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> An entity that provides a hobbyist program does not do so without reasons.
>>> Those reasons would include benefits to the entity.  In the case of VMS, the
>>> more people that know of VMS is usually a good thing for VSI.
>>>
>>
>> What if some of those "more people" are professional security researchers
>> who have read VSI's marketing material ? :-)
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
> You must be referring to "hackers" ...
>

No. Professional security researchers, many of whom are highly skilled.

> Don't glorify them with some "professional" name ...
>

Just because you clearly don't encounter them in your nice little
comfy world of line-numbered Basic, doesn't mean they don't exist.

> Don't tell me you're subscribing to "security by obscurity"?
>

No, I most certainly am not. (As you should well know by now).

> Anyway, fine by me ...
>

However, you may not like the results if a bunch of highly skilled
researchers suddenly descend on an operating system that has had
relatively little probing compared to other operating systems.

Simon.

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