[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/27/2024 3:58 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> I hope one of the VSI employees reading comp.os.vms are already having
> a quiet word with the people responsible for this to get this situation
> fixed quickly.

 > If anyone reading this agrees with the above, could you say so here ?
 > It might provoke VSI into rapidly fixing this screwup by them.

I have not counted. But I believe the current result is:

this is a good idea : 0
this is a bad idea : 50 or so magnitude

How much weight VSI put on c.o.v is another question.

> I would also recommend VSI review all the other open source software they
> make available which is maintained by non-VSI people and arrange for those
> people to have immediate continued access with the minimum of fuss and
> change required.

Yeah.

But it would be way easier to just let those people apply
for a CL license like before.

And one of the main reasons given for the change was
work administering this.

Arne