[Info-vax] So Long

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:01:09 +1300, David Goodwin
<david+usenet at zx.net.nz> wrote:

>In article <ls1qjvF3c0nU1 at mid.individual.net>, 
>johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org says...
>> 
>> On 12/12/2024 9:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> > On 12/12/2024 8:24 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> >> It does seem like all the well-known names are gradually disappearing however.
>> > 
>> > A lot of well known names from c.o.v/I-V are no longer seen.
>> > 
>> > Mark Berryman, Hunter Goatley, Brian Schenkenberg, David Jones and
>> > Robert Gezelter still drop by occasionally.
>> > 
>> > David Cathey and Nick de Smith are seen elsewhere.
>> > 
>> > Glenn Everhart, Terry Kennedy, Patrick Moreau, Bruce Tanner,
>> > Ehud Gavron, Jamie Hanrahan, Jerry Leichter, Foteos Macrides,
>> > Matthew Madison, Joe Meadows, Wolfgang Moeller, Pat Rankin,
>> > Wayne Sewell, Don Stokes etc. I have not seen anything from
>> > for many years. Probably many of them have retired.
>> > 
>> > Arne
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> Terry Kennedy is now Terri Kennedy and can be seen quite often on the VCF DEC Forum and on Oscar Vermeulen's PiDP-11 and PiDP-10 Google groups.  I had contact with Glenn Everhart back in May 2021 when I got a copy of his DECUS files but I have not spoken with him since.
>
>
>Based on their post on the VCF forum it appears the end of the 
>hobbyist/community license program may have impacted their ongoing use 
>of OpenVMS

:-(

VAX/VMS and AXP/VMS hobbyists and O.G. old-timers, can continue unto
the end of time.

It would be sagacious and generally beneficial, if VSI changed their
spots, mended their ways, resaw the light, and reimplemented a
classical VSI/VMS hobbyist program, for the maintenance and
development of VMS mindshare - particularly in the under 60's cohort!