Re: VLF Notes: VMware ESXi for VSI/VMS hobbyists

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 13:25:10 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
<clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

On 2024-12-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
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Maybe:
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$ del [...]*lmfgen*.*;*
$ del [...]*pakgen*.*;*
$ del [...]*all_other_tools_intended_for_license_violation*.*;*

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$ delete/erase woould be better.
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It's nonsense like this that gives the hobbyist community a bad name.
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Simon.

You've done your duty, VMS soldier, rest easy.

As a rule, the VLF do not interact with the comp.os.vms colloquy,
unless we feel the need, and then we wheel ourselves out of cold
storage - like cats and UFOs, our ways are mysterious.

However, I would like to correct a fundamental category error, and set
the record straight - the VLF were never VMS Hobbyists - we were VMS
Fanatics - with the self appointed task, duty, and mission, to prevent
the deletion and erasure of both VMS, and VMS mindshare.

That our activism, and releases, had derivative benefit, and utility,
for some in the VMS Hobbyist community, was a pleasant side-effect.

We have always had great respect for those inside DEC, Compaq, HP, and
now VSI, and those, outside, in the VMS community, that have
prosecuted the cause of, and maintained, the VMS Hobbyist programs for
over a quarter of a century.

Long may the VSI Hobbyist program continue.