26 Nov
2001
26 Nov
'01
5:45 a.m.
--- Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> wrote:
Well the "new" Encompass site is updated and
guess what, no "free DECUS"
memberships anymore, now its $79.99 "early bird special" and $99.99
regular
membership. No doubt when they become HP it will be even more irrelevant
to
the cause of preserving old DEC gear. I sure hope they offer lifetime VAX
licenses at some point.
For those of us DECUS members who have not yet gotten any hobbyist VAX
licenses, is it too late? I have one of the recent hobby CDs and a bunch
of 6.x originals, so media isn't a real problem, but licenses are.
What about a project to hack LMF? There was a lot of controversy a while
back about the "Screw LMF" T-Shirt at a Symposium with, IIRC, a 5.2 and
5.3 patch (details of exact versions fuzzy). Did DEC decide to lock stuff
down after 5.x or is it still possible to simply bypass checks in LMF.EXE
to always grant a license?
It just sucks to have something as cool as non-commercial licenses granted
for free change to require a paid-memebership to an organization to get
them for free. In any case, I don't expect to _pay_ to join Encompass. I
would think that losing a substantial quantity of members would cause them
to re-think their policies (including folding, since it _does_ cost to
run an organization, but normally, those costs are considered absorbable
because of the greater benefit to the bottom-line that such an organization
represents).
-ethan
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