[Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

[Dan Gahlinger]

There are Five Options I can see:

  1.  buy a commercial license from somewhere ($$$), I haven't seen any on ebay in a long time, but it might be an option, or a member here, etc
  2.  Use a commercial license you purchased in the past that doesn't expire (I have a few of these, and will be what I will do)
  3.  Use a version of VMS prior to the requirement for a termination date on the licenses (v5 and previous I think)
  4.  continue to use it despite the termination date and violate copyright (not good and not recommended!)
  5.  Roll the system clock back to a year which the months align the same, but gives you time to use it, keep rolling back as needed (pretty much the same as #4)

Dan.

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From: Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com>
Sent: March 11, 2020 10:27 PM
To: Michael Huff <mphuff at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses

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<mailto: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
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com<mailto: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

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