11 Feb
2004
11 Feb
'04
10:17 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Zane H. Healy wrote:
What I have been querying about is why hobbyists really need to pay money
to use VMS "legally". Does this apply to ALL versions of VMS or just
OpenVMS? If it's just for OpenVMS then I can understand that. But if
someone wants to copy an older version of VMS from someone else to run
their VAX 11/780 and connect it to the internet, would that be "illegal"?
I would asssume that it would be illegal if caught, but would it run. I
know the latest versions of vms need a valid cluster, vms and decnet
license to run. What version did this start at, or did all versions
require a license before starting.
Dan