[Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

[Michael Kerpan]

Layered product PAKs may be common, but as far as HPE and VSI
are concerned, they're no more legitimate than a key made by some third
party keygen. Given that both piles of old PAKs and said third party keygen
both exist, getting things to physically run is not the problem, it's being
able to do without breaking the rules that's the sticking point.

Mike

On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 11:10 PM Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:39 AM Hunter Goatley <goathunter at goatley.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I had hoped that HPE would release non-expiring VAX PAKs, because why
>> not? They're out of the game, and no one else has the code for VAX. But
>> they apparently aren't going to do that, which effectively ends SIMH,
>> VAX, and Alpha for all but commercial use with purchased commercial
>> licenses.
>>
>
> Layered product license PAKs for Alpha and VAX are common for products
> available
> for the hobbyist program.  That may be the reason why they couldn't issue
> non-expiring licenses for VAX - because they'd be non-expiring for Alpha
> too!
>
> A VAX-VMS license PAK without layered products would be useless (to me).
>
> Tony
>
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