[HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2020-03-07 20:01, William Pechter wrote:
> Does that include IAS - - the one thing I really want on the PiDP11...
> 
> Lots of my local newspapers ran it... Especially for classified 
> advertising.

As far as I am aware, IAS was not included in the sale of PDP-11 
software from DEC to Mentec.
So I guess IAS is still fully under HPE control. But good luck finding 
anyone in there who even knows about it...

   Johnny

> 
> Bill
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
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> Sent: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:55
> Subject: Re: [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing
> 
> 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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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
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