Oh, I've spoken to the good folks at Encompass and Montagar. (No-one directly
at Compaq has ever replied to my emails.) There is apparently an Intellectual
property issue that prevents them from including the old DEC Lisp in the free
list. It also has to do with the fact that DEC stopped shipping the product in
1993. Hence, I'm trying to see if I can find someone with the old piece of
paper so that I could convince Compaq to let me transfer the license to me.
I'm just a nut who would like to legally run some antique software.
As for faking the license, I don't know of anyway to hack out the PAK system...
> William,
>
> Is http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/ and the list of products your
> problem? - Indeed, I cannot see LISP there, but they won't want you to
> fake a license in order to make the software run, will they? ;-)
>
> Did you talk to them and mention that several other programming
> languages are part of the hobbyist program?
>
> Andreas
>
> William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> >
> > Longshot, but someone here might have one or know where to find one.
(snip)
> - --
> Andreas Freiherr
> Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
> http://www.vishay.com
William
--
You better watch out What you wish for;
It better be worth it So much to die for.
Courtney Love
Received on Mon Jan 28 2002 - 10:40:24 GMT