Re: VAX software available for download

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 20:07:14 -0400

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> royalty costs are distributed over the whole product line.

Once more: the whole royalty issue has already been dealt with and is
applied to the issuance of PAKs.

Motif is royalty free for the hobbyist programme because the owner of
VMS doesn't collect money. (Motif is now open sourced for non commercial
platforms, but royalties required for systems whose operating system
costs money to buy.

Also consider that, especially for VAX, a large number of software
packages arfe for mature softwrae no longer develpped. Consider that the
CDA converters, once Digital, then sold to some german outfit who then
let it drop are now on the freeware disks.