[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Dave McGuire]

On 3/7/20 1:55 PM, Johnny Billquist 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.

  Oh really?  Wow.

  Presumably this is to protect the interests of organizations still
running PDP-11s in production, but I'd have thought that they were
essentially self-supporting at this point.  I only know of one
personally (locally), and they are entirely self-supporting.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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