[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-04-13, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> On 13/04/2023 23:12, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> On Tue, 2023-04-04 at 00:22 +0100, Chris Townley wrote:
>>>> I applied for the Alpha licence last year. Can't wait for my e-
>>>> mail!
>>>
>>> Not that I can do anything until AMD is support is added, which they
>>> say
>>> will be in V9.2-1
>>>
>>> I went to the CLP registration page, but the X-86 option is still
>>> disabled. Also haven't had any emails
>> 
>> My boat finally came in. The email just arrived!
>
> So did mine, except they say we are all enrolled, but they are 
> restricted who can download it. It will be rolled out over e next three 
> months.
>
> Pretty pointless announcement
>

Got that email as well. :-(

Sometimes I wonder if the VSI funders are keeping VSI around as a
tax writeoff because VSI management keep finding new ways to screw up
the VMS marketplace. :-(

VSI has just had an excellent writeup in The Register, and instead of
moving full steam ahead in response to that and giving a wide range of
people access to x86-64 VMS, so they can play with it, VSI turn around
and say we will gradually allow access over a 3 _month_ period. :-( WTF ???

Oh, and according to that email, you are not allowed to contact them
other than through the community forum, and if you do, your responses
will be initially ignored and your access eventually blocked.

So what is someone who finds a vulnerability in all this new code expected
to do ? Just post in the forum and hope no one does something bad with it ?
Contacting VSI privately, and via the customer portal which they don't
want you to use, is exactly the kind of way security issues should be
reported - securely in private and via a formal mechanism.

Simon.

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