25 Sep
2021
25 Sep
'21
5:32 a.m.
On Fri, 2021-09-24 at 12:00 -0500, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Yeah, would have been nice if they would have handed it off to Montegar
again for VAX/early Alpha with the understanding that (a) it would be
the same restrictions that DEC/CPQ/HP had and (b) they weren't bugged
about it ever again. Sigh. Fits into the HP model of "buy and bury" I
guess. At least VAX has other options.
Anyone succeeded in patching the DCL security hole for VAX? I know it
wasn't officially fixed.
supported by
any release licensed by VSI, and they changed the
PRODUCER
key so you can't use those PAKs on DEC/CPQ/HP variants of VMS.
Part of their licensing agreement with HPE which prohibits them from
selling/licensing any previous version of OpenVMS that they haven't
worked on.
HP stopped issuing new hobbyist PAKs back very
early in 2020. I put
in
for a renew March or so and never got it. They were so
disinterested in
the program that they didn't mention stopping it, so I guess it
isn't
surprising that the page is still up.
If it's a VAX PAK you need, contact me and I can send you a copy of
the last VAX OpenVMS Hobbyist PAK sent out.? Note that it expires on
1-JAN-2022 so it's good only for a few more months.