Re: OpenVMS Alpha V8.2 distribution
johnhreinhardt_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/15/05
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Date: 14 Feb 2005 20:28:07 -0800
John Santos wrote:
>
> I'm getting mine by borrowing it from work :-)
>
Unfortunately I haven't worked for an employer with OpenVMS since 2002
so that avenue is out. I paid somewhere around $250 on Ebay for the
Alpha 7.3-2 OS and the Q4CY2003 SPL and $30 for the Alpha 7.3-1 CD from
www.openvmshobbyist.org . I'd gladly pay $50 or so for a couple of
CD's from them with everything (except the bazillion DECwindows
versions) that the Hobbyist License covers plus documentation.
> It's perfectly all right to beg or borrow a copy. Stealing is
frowned upon.
>
> Conventional wisdom is that putting a copy of it up on the Internet
so
> people can download it is also right out.
I've also got the means to furnish downloads on the web if some sort of
way could be found to verify that a hobbyist was dowloading. But I can
see the legal implications on that could be prohibitive.
> I don't know if there has been an actual post from someone at HP or
if
> it is "obvious" (in the legalese sense of "obvious") from the
hobbyist
> license agreement that this is illegal, but I wouldn't chance it. If
> it were okay, I think HP would put it up on their own web site if it
> were okay, so people downloading it would have some assurance they
were
> getting the real thing and not a hacked trojan horse version or an
> obsolete beta.
I think it's more the economics of charging $1K for 40 odd CD's a year
as opposed to whatever the cost of keeping up a download area. I note
that from the cover letter, etc on my SPL that you CAN download
portions of the SPL if you have a password that is furnished with the
SPL - however that password expires quarterly so usually by the time
things make it to Ebay the password is long past usable.
John H. Reinhardt
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