[HECnet] Any interest in Alpha software/documentation from March 2003?

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

That's what I was thinking Sampsa. OTOH Steve is quite right that we shouldn't rock the boat too much. 
Probably HP isn't interested in the media. But they are surely alerted if we'd trade licenses: which we don't (and never would). 

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Sure. But a discreet http site which is not published will go under the radar.

Just my 2 cents

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On 3 Dec 2011, at 18:54, Steve Davidson <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:

As long as VMS continues to bring in money, HP *will* notice.   Let's not
give them a reason to change the hobbyist program in a way that hurts us
all.   This is clearly a case of better safe than sorry...

-Steve

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Notice? Is there anyone left at HP who recognises VMS as a 
product HP owns?

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Steve,

As long as we keep the links to ourselves I doubt HP will even notice.

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On 2 Dec 2011, at 04:54, Steve Davidson <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:



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from March 2003?

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Marc Chametzky 
<marc at bluevine.net> 
wrote:
My vote would be to put them online within HECnet.

I agree! Put the contents online (somehow) for us to 
view and use 
when possible.


Okay, I'll do that then. I've copied the CDs to .iso 
files and now 
need to get my Linux system to get a bit more room to 
hold them and 
then once that's reconfigured, I'll mount them on DUSTY:: 
(and send 
out a message when that's done to let everyone know where it is).


I will happily rip and host the CD images for HECnet
member use - I
run a data center, so I have plenty of bandwidth to spare. 
I'll even
pay for shipping if required.


Thanks very much for the offer, Ian, but I've got a very decent 
Internet connection here (all hail, Verizon FiOS :-) ), so once I 
resize my Linux disk to hold these files, I'll be set.

--Marc

Hello!
Marc for those of us who as yet do not have access via the 
networking 
methods that you've worked out with the rest of the group, can you 
set up access for normal methods? IE, via FTP or even HTTP?

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Wars, time and again."


Marc,

We need to be careful about putting VMS kits in the public space.   
It's one thing to make them available for HECnet users 
within HECnet 
but another to put them accessible to the whole world.   HP might 
(probably will), take a very dim view of this.   Let's not temp fate 
and give them ammunition to shutdown the program.

-Steve