26 Nov
2001
26 Nov
'01
6:30 a.m.
If I remember properly, the licences issued on behalf of the hobbyist
VAX/VMS effort were good for 1 year only (from date of issue?) and
needed to be re-issued every year (please correct me if I'm wrong...
I am not very VMS literate :-) At the time I remember reading of
this, someone indicated that it wouldn't be a problem, since all
you needed to get a new licence was a current DECUS membership
(which was free)... we were told not to worry....
Well, apparently we should now start worrying....
-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:45 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: one shoe down ...
--- 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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