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  • Did VSI provide one final Community License extension last month?

    From Anonymous@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 7 21:10:01 2024
    In an email I received from VSI on March 26, 2024 announcing the
    termination of the Community License Program, VSI stated that existing
    holders of Alpha and Integrity community licenses would have their licenses renewed one last time in August.

    I held a license in August but received no further notification about a
    final extension. Did anyone else?

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  • From Anonymous@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 7 21:26:34 2024
    The app log even shows a successful authentication with the correct
    username and black circles for the password. But I’m still anonymous.

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  • From Anonymous@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 7 21:23:50 2024
    It was actually I, Galen Tackett, who posted that. Don’t know why Eternal September posted it anonymously. I just now checked that the username and password settings in my iOS newsreader app are correct.

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  • From John H. Reinhardt@21:1/5 to Anonymous on Sat Sep 7 17:18:53 2024
    On 9/7/2024 4:10 PM, Anonymous wrote:


    In an email I received from VSI on March 26, 2024 announcing the
    termination of the Community License Program, VSI stated that existing holders of Alpha and Integrity community licenses would have their licenses renewed one last time in August.

    I held a license in August but received no further notification about a
    final extension. Did anyone else?

    Hi Galen!

    The email I got had this:

    Your current license is valid through August 22, 2024. In the next several days, we will send you your credentials for accessing our Service Portal where you will get your replacement license (in August) and software. On the day when your license
    expires, your access to the Service Portal will be revoked.

    Do you have a login at the VSI Service Portal? If so, look there. They may be a set of PAKS for the CLP. I was a CLP member, but applied and was granted membership in the Ambassador's program so I don't think I'll see them. But, if they did it that
    way, you should.


    --
    John H. Reinhardt

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  • From Craig A. Berry@21:1/5 to Anonymous on Sun Sep 8 17:00:44 2024
    On 9/7/24 4:10 PM, Anonymous wrote:


    In an email I received from VSI on March 26, 2024 announcing the
    termination of the Community License Program, VSI stated that existing holders of Alpha and Integrity community licenses would have their licenses renewed one last time in August.

    It certainly does say that in the announcement:

    https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2024-03-25-community-license-update/

    I held a license in August but received no further notification about a
    final extension. Did anyone else?

    I have not, but then I also did not get notified in 2023 that my
    licenses had been renewed through August 2024; I discovered by accident
    some time later that the same links that worked in 2022 started getting
    renewed licenses at some point. Trying those links now still gets me
    the ones that expired last month, though.

    It's moot for me personally as I now have other licenses; if you were
    relying on that last renewal, asking in the VSI forum might get a more knowledgeable response.

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  • From Simon Clubley@21:1/5 to John H. Reinhardt on Mon Sep 9 12:29:19 2024
    On 2024-09-07, John H. Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

    Do you have a login at the VSI Service Portal? If so, look there. They may be a set of PAKS for the CLP. I was a CLP member, but applied and was granted membership in the Ambassador's program so I don't think I'll see them. But, if they did it that
    way, you should.


    It's a pity VSI didn't implement some automated VMS knowledge-based test
    to determine which level of hobbyist VMS access you got. If you passed the test, you get the full install kits, but you are expected to know enough
    to install and configure it yourself.

    If you fail the test, you get the current pre-built version and get to ask handholding questions.

    VSI claimed they did the change because of all the basic questions people unfamiliar with VMS were asking and because those people probably expected
    to be handheld in the same way as you are when installing a basic Windows setup. Some knowledge-based test before being granted hobbyist access may
    have solved this.

    Simon.

    --
    Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
    Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

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  • From Single Stage to Orbit@21:1/5 to Simon Clubley on Mon Sep 9 19:08:41 2024
    On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 12:29 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
    Do you have a login at the VSI Service Portal?  If so, look there. 
    They may be a set of PAKS for the CLP.  I was a CLP member, but
    applied and was granted membership in the Ambassador's program so I
    don't think I'll see them.  But, if they did it that way, you
    should.


    It's a pity VSI didn't implement some automated VMS knowledge-based
    test to determine which level of hobbyist VMS access you got. If you
    passed the test, you get the full install kits, but you are expected
    to know enough to install and configure it yourself.

    If you fail the test, you get the current pre-built version and get
    to ask handholding questions.

    VSI claimed they did the change because of all the basic questions
    people unfamiliar with VMS were asking and because those people
    probably expected to be handheld in the same way as you are when
    installing a basic Windows setup. Some knowledge-based test before
    being granted hobbyist access may have solved this.

    I absolutely fucking agree with this!
    --
    Tactical Nuclear Kittens

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