<div>Does that include IAS - - the one thing I really want on the PiDP11... <br/>
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Lots of my local newspapers ran it... Especially for classified advertising. <br/>
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<font color="#888888"><font color="#888888">Sent from </font><font color="#888888"><a href="mailto:pechter@gmail.com">pechter@gmail.com</a></font></font><br/><br/>-----Original Message-----<br/>From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se><br/>To: hecnet@Update.UU.SE<br/>Sent: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:55<br/>Subject: Re: [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing<br/><br/></div>On 2020-03-07 19:51, Dave McGuire wrote:
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> On 3/7/20 1:45 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
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>> An interesting side question is this: what legacy DEC oses does HPE
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>> still own the rights to and what if anything is going to happen to those?
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> I believe most (all?) of the PDP-11 OSs are, or at least were a few
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> years ago, owned by David Carroll. I don't know what he plans to do
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The situation is murky. Yes, XX2247 "owns" most PDP-11 OS and software.
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However, there are clauses in the contracts that give HP (HPE?) control
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over things still... So at the moment, there is not much of anything
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XX2247 can do.
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Johnny
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