[Simh] OpenVMS Hobbyist Program

[Kevin Handy]

With VMS only available for obsolete hardware, the  main people keeping the
knowledge alive is the hobbyests. With the loss of the hobbyist program,
there's going to be a lot of hard feelings left behind. IWon't that cause
VSI problems when the finally get an X86 version going? The VMS supporters
are going to feel like they've been burned too many times Why would someone
choose VMS, who keep dropping out, over Linux or Windows, which seems to be
taking over in the area's VMS used to hold.
It just seems to be a bad deal for VSI's future.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Hunter Goatley <goathunter at goatley.com>
wrote:

> On 3/8/2020 8:57 AM, Craig Berry wrote:
> > HPE does not need to be selling or supporting the software in order to
> collect royalties from those who do, and I suspect the commercial emulator
> vendors have the ability to issue PAKs for new and transferred VAX
> licenses, and make money for themselves and for HPE when they do so.
>
> Good point. I had assumed HPE was the only entity doing that, but that
> may not be the case.
>
> Hunter
>
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