12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
2:11 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 08:08:43AM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Which would be great - anyone still running OpenVMS on VAX for business
purposes presumably has the appropriate (non-expiring) licenses anyway.
So having OpenVMS VAX (and maybe even Alpha) released with an
eternal hobbyist license (strictly non-commercial research/hobby
purposes) would not only be a great win, but all we can really ask
for.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
Years ago us SGI hobbyists were able to talk to
SGI about this and a huge problem SGI had with any kind of hobbyist
license for IRIX or turning it free is it's fully of licensed 3rd party stuff. But
maybe now that's it's expired, or all
the companies things were licensed from are gone.
Release of Classic HP3000 died for the same reason from the same company.
HP has no motivation to spend time/money to release this. Also, the only way CHM
was able to release what we did (HP1000, 68K 9000 and Apollo) was having
us release it only for non-commercial research/hobby purposes.