[TUHS] Unix on DEC AlphaServer 4000

[Rudi Blom]

You're a bit harsh on the developers but I think in most cases it was
the marketing/finance  part of companies which decided on such mundane
matters as licensing.

My 2-1/2 cents.

Cheers,
uncle rubl

>Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:42:39 -0700
>From: John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com>
>To: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
>Cc: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math.utah.edu>, tuhs
>        <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
>Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on DEC AlphaServer 4000
>Message-ID: <32401.1600544559 at hop.toad.com>

... snip ...

>License managers now count as DRM, under the Digital Millennium
>Copyright Act (though no such laws had been passed when the license
>managers were first created).  So: is it worth breaking the law in many
>countries, to maintain a historical curiosity?

>Personally, I would throw DRM-encrusted software, and the hardware that
>is dependent on it, into the dustbin of history.  Its creators had fair.
>warning that they were making their products unusable after they stopped
>caring to maintain them.  They didn't care about their place in history,
>nor about their users.  They did it anyway, for short-term profit and to
>harass those people foolish enough to be their customers.  Their memes
>should not be passed to future generations.  As Sir Walter Scott
>suggested in another context, they "doubly dying, shall go down, to the.
>vile dust, from whence [they] sprung, unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung".

        John