[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

David Goodwin david+usenet at zx.net.nz
Tue Mar 26 20:37:27 EDT 2024


In article <bc05184eff3c8837b48cb6895d7018c256f7694f.camel at munted.eu>, 
alex.buell at munted.eu says...
> 
> On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 08:22 +1300, David Goodwin wrote:
> > > They said they would be issuing final licences in 2025. But they
> > > don't mention if they are open ended or not. They need to confirm
> > > that.
> > 
> > I think it is very very safe to assume they are not open-ended.
> > They're giving Alpha and Itanium hobbyists a year to move off of
> > OpenVMS.
> 
> I think some people would want to hang onto their VAX/Alpha
> installations. Don't really care about TItanic though.

I'm sure they would, but VAX hobbyists were not given this option and I 
see no indication that Alpha will be any different. I guess hobbyists 
who want to keep their Alpha installations running now have the same 
options available to them as VAX hobbyists.



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