[Info-vax] Did VSI provide one final Community License extension last month?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-09-07, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
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> Do you have a login at the VSI Service Portal?  If so, look there.  They may be a set of PAKS for the CLP.  I was a CLP member, but applied and was granted membership in the Ambassador's program so I don't think I'll see them.  But, if they did it that way, you should.
>

It's a pity VSI didn't implement some automated VMS knowledge-based test
to determine which level of hobbyist VMS access you got. If you passed the
test, you get the full install kits, but you are expected to know enough
to install and configure it yourself.

If you fail the test, you get the current pre-built version and get to ask
handholding questions.

VSI claimed they did the change because of all the basic questions people
unfamiliar with VMS were asking and because those people probably expected
to be handheld in the same way as you are when installing a basic Windows
setup. Some knowledge-based test before being granted hobbyist access may
have solved this.

Simon.

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