9 Mar
2020
9 Mar
'20
2:23 p.m.
On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 3/9/20 1:33 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
That?s from a technical perspective, from a legal perspective their license expired.
-- Chris
On 3/9/2020 12:20 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
Actually, as long as they can live with incorrect time Hobbyists
could use that last set of PAKs forever. On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 4:32 PM John H. Reinhardt
via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>>
wrote:
I would think that those that already have legal VAX PAKs/licenses could still run
them. It's just no *NEW* PAKs could be legally generated.
The hobby PAKs _and_ the licenses have a one-year expiration.
As a Hobbyist
license holder since 2004 I am well aware. The language Bill used implied that no one
would be able to legally run OpenVMS on a VAX. I was saying that those who had bought
licenses previously (implying commercial and other entities) should still be legal in
running VAX OpenVMS even after HPE shuts down their OpenVMS activities. Bill may have
been intending just the Hobbyist (and educational licenses, too) but the language was
ambiguous.