On Mar 7, 2020, at 8:09 PM, Tony Nicholson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 11:39 AM Hunter Goatley <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > [snip] > > I had hoped that HPE would release non-expiring VAX PAKs, because why > not? They're out of the game, and no one else has the code for VAX. But > they apparently aren't going to do that, which effectively ends SIMH, > VAX, and Alpha for all but commercial use with purchased commercial > licenses. > > Layered product license PAKs for Alpha and VAX are common for products > available > for the hobbyist program. That may be the reason why they couldn't issue > non-expiring licenses for VAX - because they'd be non-expiring for Alpha too!
I was thinking the same thing, and it seems obvious that VSI is making money off of Alpha. > A VAX-VMS license PAK without layered products would be useless (to me). IIRC, this was all we got with the original Hobbyist program. Zane
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