[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-03-07 19:51, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 3/7/20 1:45 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>> An interesting side question is this: what legacy DEC oses does HPE
>> still own the rights to and what if anything is going to happen to those?
> 
>    I believe most (all?) of the PDP-11 OSs are, or at least were a few
> years ago, owned by David Carroll.  I don't know what he plans to do
> with it all, if anything.

The situation is murky. Yes, XX2247 "owns" most PDP-11 OS and software. 
However, there are clauses in the contracts that give HP (HPE?) control 
over things still... So at the moment, there is not much of anything 
XX2247 can do.

   Johnny

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