<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mike</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <<a href="mailto:mphuff@gmail.com">mphuff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the
options for simh users after that?<br>
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<div>On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger
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my hobbyist id is not in the pack.</div>
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there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms
for hobbyists is officially defunct.</div>
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Dan</div>
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Try: <a href="https://www.grammarly.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.grammarly.com</a></div>
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Nicholson <a href="mailto:tony.nicholson@computer.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><tony.nicholson@computer.org></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dan Gahlinger <a href="mailto:dgahling@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><dgahling@hotmail.com></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">simh@trailing-edge.com</a>
<a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><simh@trailing-edge.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final
hobbyist licenses</font>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at
09:49, Dan Gahlinger <<a href="mailto:dgahling@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dgahling@hotmail.com</a>>
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I'd like to know if the License authorization code is
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or if they actually bothered to send everyone their
own, for tracing purposes.</div>
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mine ends in 301.</div>
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Be sure to thank him when you renew.</div>
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<div dir="auto">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).</div>
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<div dir="auto">Tony</div>
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