Currently, after the current hobby license expire, your options are to either become a pirate or to learn to love vintage Unix. Of course this is almost two years in the future: things could end up changing in that time.
Mike On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 10:13 PM Michael Huff <mph...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be clear: this license expires in Dec 2021? What are the options for > simh users after that? > On 3/11/2020 5:13 PM, Dan Gahlinger wrote: > > my hobbyist id is not in the pack. > > there is no renewal, this is a final license, after this, vms for > hobbyists is officially defunct. > > Dan > > Try: https://www.grammarly.com > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tony Nicholson <tony.nichol...@computer.org> > <tony.nichol...@computer.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:07:56 PM > *To:* Dan Gahlinger <dgahl...@hotmail.com> <dgahl...@hotmail.com> > *Cc:* simh@trailing-edge.com <simh@trailing-edge.com> > <simh@trailing-edge.com> > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] HPE has started emailing the final hobbyist licenses > > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 09:49, Dan Gahlinger <dgahl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'd like to know if the License authorization code is the same for > everyone, > or if they actually bothered to send everyone their own, for tracing > purposes. > > mine ends in 301. > > > > Hari from the HPE OpenVMS customer lab is the administrator of the > hobbyist program. He once told me that he maintains the program only > out-of-hours and in his own time. Without his efforts the programme may > have ended sooner. > > Be sure to thank him when you renew. > > The email you receive with the PAKs should have your Hobbyist ID on it. > These are tracked. The final PAKs look like the authorization code is a > date to me (pakgened on March 1st). > > Tony > > -- > Tony Nicholson <tony.nichol...@computer.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing > listSimh@trailing-edge.comhttp://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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