[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Michael Kerpan]

Currently, after the current hobby license expire, your options are to
either become a pirate or to learn to love vintage Unix. Of course this is
almost two years in the future: things could end up changing in that time.

Mike

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the options for
> simh users after that?
> On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
>
> my hobbyist id is not in the pack.
>
> there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms for
> hobbyists is officially defunct.
>
> Dan
>
> Try: https://www.grammarly.com
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
> <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM
> *To:* Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> <dgahling at hotmail.com>
> *Cc:* simh at trailing-edge.com <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to know if the License authorization code is the same for
> everyone,
> or if they actually bothered to send everyone their own, for tracing
> purposes.
>
> mine ends in 301.
>
>
>
> Hari from the HPE OpenVMS customer lab is the administrator of the
> hobbyist program.  He once told me that he maintains the program only
> out-of-hours and in his own time.  Without his efforts the programme may
> have ended sooner.
>
> Be sure to thank him when you renew.
>
> The email you receive with the PAKs should have your Hobbyist ID on it.
> These are tracked.  The final PAKs look like the authorization code is a
> date to me (pakgened on  March 1st).
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
>
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