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_at_1bigred.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: one shoe down ...
>
>
>
> --- Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_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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