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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">As far as I know,</font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">the license is not specific to the version of vms from what I've used.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">That is the same license on 5.3 has worked with 7.2 and vice-versa.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">transfer-ability might be iffy depending on the contracts, not sure on that one,</font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">the official authority on that would be HP now.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">I bought a vax off ebay and it came with licenses and the official paper documents,</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">including the sales invoices, contracts and everything, which the seller transferred to me.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">I'm not sure HP cares about old vms 5.3 stuff or older (or maybe they do), but it's surprising to see them</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">trying to sell the media (CD) for the old VMS for like $4 grand!</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">not for a license, not for anything, just the damn media!</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br>So even if you own an old vax like I do, and have the license, and the software is on it,</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">if I wanted a replacement CD, HP wants me to pay them $4,000 ... that's just crazy.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">of course the old support contracts and stuff have long expired.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Also note many licenses have a "termination" date, and you might not be able to freely</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">transfer them from the vax to simh, etc - another thing for HP to take care of.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">so while it's physically possible to use an old license with simh (barring termination dates),</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">it might not be entirely legal to do so...</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Dan.<br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:57:23 -1000<br>> From: tim.newsham@gmail.com<br>> To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> Subject: [Simh] OT: VMS licensing<br>> <br>> Off-Topic but this seems like a good pool of people to ask.<br>> I hope its acceptable use.<br>> <br>> I'm looking for information on licensing VAX/VMS.<br>> Would it be possible to get a legal license to VMS 5.3?<br>> Are licenses tied to a particular machine or a particular<br>> time frame? If someone was selling an old VAX that<br>> ran VMS 5.3, would the license still be valid for that machine<br>> today? Would it still be valid after the sale?<br>> Would it be transferable to other hardware or even a simulator?<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Simh mailing list<br>> Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh<br></div></div> </div></body>
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