[Info-vax] New VSI Community License Program for x86

[bill]

On 4/2/2024 8:22 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-04-01, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>>
>> Note that DECnet-IV is not installed, only DECnet-PLUS.
> 
> That seems like a _really_ strange decision. Most people use DECnet-IV and
> only a few use DECnet-PLUS.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what the possible thinking could be here ?

Force people in the direction they want them to go rather than
learning their needs and working to meet them.  NOt the first
case of this I have seen and very much in line with what I have
said academia is doing for quite some time now.

> 
>> Neither is BASIC, COBOL nor PASCAL for languages.
> 
> BASIC I can understand. COBOL I am not sure the current status of, but not
> including PASCAL seems to be a major oversight. I hope it can be downloaded
> by new Community Licence users.
> 
>>
>> I have also done a LICENSE /ISSUE/PROCEDURE and copied the supplied licenses to my previous OpenVMS x86 systems
>>
> 
> Until someone in VSI gets into a "you are not allowed to do that !!!!!!!!"
> frame of mind and says it is against the terms of the Community Licence. :-)

Laugh all you want.  That was the first thing that came to my mind.
License Violation!!

> 
> If VSI do object to that, hopefully CL users will get a warning first
> instead of just being outright banned...
> 

Or they could just decide to terminate the program altogether.
That would not surprise me at all.

bill