[Simh] Has anyone contacted VSI directly about Hobbyist Licenses ?

[Vesko Kenashkov]

Hi everyone,

I pinged them yesterday on FB congratulating them about rolling out v9.0 on
VirtualBox and inquired about Hobbyist program and they confirmed there
will be one for sure before the end of the HPE's one. So good news for us
all!

Vesko Kenashkov

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:43 AM Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> Wow, that is awesome news!
>
>
> On 4/26/2020 7:00 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>
> On 4/26/2020 5:27 PM, James W. Laferriere wrote:
>
>     Hello Anyone ,  Has anyone contacted VSI directly about Hobbyist
> Licensing ie: sales at vmssoftware.com ?
>
>     While they see we have no $'s invested in their products ,  They
> should see a PR function in this arena .
>
>     Actually hoping that someone has done so .
>         Hthfys ,  JimL
>
> VSI is way ahead of you.  Posted April 22nd on their "News" page:
>
> VSI announces community license
>
> You may be aware that HPE have announced they are “concluding the
> HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program in alignment with the HPE
> OpenVMS support roadmap” which essentially means that the Hobbyist
> program as you know it ceases at the end of 2020.
>
> GOOD NEWS: There has been speculation that VMS Software, Inc.
> would take over this program, so let us end the speculation and
> say categorically that VMS Software, Inc. is bringing out a
> replacement program for the HPE Hobbyist license program. It will
> be called the “OpenVMS Community License Program”, and we are
> currently in the process of working out all the details, which
> will be available well before the end of the HPE Hobbyist license
> program.
>
> https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/
>
>
> It was at the top of the page, but now it's been replaced by news of the
> EAK V9.0 kit and you have to scroll down a ways to find it. However, we are
> assuming that it will only address Alpha, Integrity and x86 licenses.
> Unless HPE changes their agreement with VSI (we assume) that they won't be
> able to issue "Community Licenses" for the VAX platform.  But that may
> change by the end of the year.  Only HPE and VSI know.
>
>
> In the meantime, if you haven't, get your HPE Hobbyist license(s) as they
> are counting the number of participants which may go to VSI.  The new
> license will not expire until January 1, 2022.
>
> --
> John H. Reinhardt
>
>
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Vesko Kenashkov
Developer at AzonMedia <https://azonmedia.com/> and Guzaba Framework
<https://github.com/AzonMedia/guzaba2>
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