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  1. $! 58 ADAWI . : FFS EA !$
  2. $! 19 BLSS : SETPRV BYPASS CMKRNL DiAGNOSE READALL . INCL D6 !$
  3. $! BC CHMK ^ VOLPRO iMPERSONATE SHARE WORLD UPGRADE v JSB 16 !$
  4. $! B7 DECW | | LDPCTX 06 !$
  5. $! -- - >--+----------------------------------------+--> -- - !$
  6. $! 7A EMUL | | MATCHC 39 !$
  7. $! EB FFC | .................................... | PROBER 0C !$
  8. $! 0A INDEX | :__ __: __ : ______ : | REMQUE 0F !$
  9. $! 17 JMP | :\$\ /$/: |@| : |&&&&&&| : | SVPCTX 07 !$
  10. $! 3A LOCC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&|____ : | TSTG 53FD !$
  11. $! 2F MOVTUC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&&&&&&| : | VGATHQ 37FD !$
  12. $! 0D PROBEW | : \$\/$/ : |@|____ : |&| : | XORW3 AD !$
  13. $! 02 REI | : \$$/ : |@@@@@@| : |&| : | ASHQ 79 !$
  14. $! 2A SCANC | :............:..........:..........: | BGTRU 1A !$
  15. $! 73FD TSTH | | CRC 0B !$
  16. $! E9FD VSXORL | --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT ::-- | VSYNC A8FD !$
  17. $! FC XFC | | CLRL D4 !$
  18. $! 35FD VGATHL | +=================+ | MTVP A9FD !$
  19. $! 60 ADDD2 | -- +| IN VMS WE TRUST |+ -- | SPANC 2B !$
  20. $! DF PUSHAL | +=================+ | PUSHR BB !$
  21. $! - -- <--+----------------------------------------+--< - -- !$
  22. $! 03 BPT | | POPR BA !$
  23. $! FA CALLG ^ THE VERNON PRESERVATiON UNDERGROUND v IOTA EDFD !$
  24. $! 97 DECB . DEDiCATED TO PROJECT EMERALD : NOP 01 !$
  25. $! 74FD EMODH : . HALT 00 !$
  26.  
  27. --:: PRESENTS ::--
  28.  
  29. $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE] ---------------------------------------!$
  30.  
  31. LiBREVMS.LMFGEN.OpenVMS.Tru64.OSF1.ULTRIX.v1.2.WinALL.x86.x64.KEYGEN-VLF
  32.  
  33. SOFTWARE NAME: OpenVMS, Tru64, OSF1, ULTRIX License Management Facility license generator
  34. SOFTWARE TYPE: Keygen
  35. DEVELOPER....: VLF
  36. URL..........: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/
  37.  
  38. VLF RCE.....: Subcommandante BYPASS RELEASE TYPE....: KEYGEN
  39. SUPPLiER....: TEAM VLF RELEASE DATE....: 2012-10-25
  40. PACKER......: TEAM VLF RELEASE DiSKS...: 1 X 5M
  41. LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaaa*
  42. PROTECTiON..: LMF MEDiCiNE........: LMFGEN
  43. PLATFORM....: WinALL x86 x64
  44.  
  45. $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE.DESCRiPTiON] ---------------------------!$
  46.  
  47. The License Management Facility (LMF) is a common license checking
  48. layer for many DEC/COMPAQ/HP Operating Systems including OpenVMS,
  49. ULTRIX, and OSF1, Digital UNIX, TRU64 and the related Layered Products
  50. application software.
  51.  
  52. The LiBREVMS LMFGEN allows you to generate specific licenses for any
  53. LMF protected software or you can use one of the VLF pre-generated
  54. license PAKS to license myriad layered products.
  55.  
  56. $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
  57.  
  58. Open up a Windows Command Shell: START -> RUN -> CMD
  59.  
  60. Or use an alternative Command Shell for Windows, such as the JPSoft
  61. TCC/LE:
  62.  
  63. http://jpsoft.com/tccle-cmd-replacement.html
  64.  
  65. Set default to the directory where you extracted the contents of
  66. release archive and then run the LMFGEN.EXE executable.
  67.  
  68. Execute LMFGEN.EXE /HELP for help and LMFGEN.EXE /HELP=EXAMPLES for
  69. license generation examples.
  70.  
  71. Consult the HP OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual for further
  72. insight:
  73.  
  74. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/4584/4584pro.html
  75.  
  76. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
  77.  
  78. "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it
  79. up 'em."
  80.  
  81. -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
  82.  
  83. Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
  84. Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
  85.  
  86. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
  87.  
  88. NB: We were aiming for a v1.0.0.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
  89. MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10, but health issues and the
  90. vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua ad
  91. astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
  92.  
  93. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
  94.  
  95. --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
  96. <v0.9.2.0 BETA>
  97.  
  98. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
  99.  
  100. That in VMS we trust.
  101.  
  102. That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
  103. conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
  104. immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
  105. 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
  106. level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
  107. devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
  108.  
  109. That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
  110. developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
  111. and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
  112. expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
  113. parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
  114. current and future generations of humanity.
  115.  
  116. That the VMS Operating System should be ported to all CPU architectures
  117. where all of the Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating
  118. Systems are manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also
  119. ported to the ARM architectures.
  120.  
  121. That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
  122. Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
  123. Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
  124. Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
  125. and governments and so that the research and development, the
  126. evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
  127.  
  128. That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
  129. machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
  130. Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
  131. swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
  132.  
  133. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
  134.  
  135. The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System is on the 25th
  136. of October 2012.
  137.  
  138. The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
  139.  
  140. http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
  141.  
  142. We recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion; sink
  143. several in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable, unkillable, VMS!
  144.  
  145. $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
  146.  
  147. No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
  148. Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
  149.  
  150. You get that on the big jobs.
  151.  
  152. $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
  153.  
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  177.  
  178. The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
  179. completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
  180. evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
  181. represents.
  182.  
  183. http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
  184.  
  185. Refresh your memories:
  186.  
  187. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
  188. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
  189.  
  190. We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
  191. Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
  192. Digital Equipment Corporation.
  193.  
  194. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
  195.  
  196. $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
  197.  
  198. The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its' keygenning, cracking and
  199. reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
  200. intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
  201. cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
  202. too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
  203. stupidity of HP management.
  204.  
  205. The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
  206. ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
  207. operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
  208. specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
  209. from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
  210. coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
  211. entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
  212. and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
  213. course, the cost of software and hardware.
  214.  
  215. Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
  216. Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
  217. literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
  218. computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
  219. methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly
  220. on matters computing.
  221.  
  222. Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
  223. world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
  224. CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
  225. literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
  226.  
  227. So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
  228. church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
  229. study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence and confidence and
  230. if they start earning money from their VMS skills, then it's time to
  231. buy the tools they use.
  232.  
  233. Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
  234. their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
  235.  
  236. The VLF does not condone or approve of its' releases being used for
  237. commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
  238. reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
  239. current and future generations.
  240.  
  241. The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
  242. engineer, since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus, instead, we
  243. reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their application
  244. worth cracking and integrating into the tool-kit to assist in
  245. boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology from catastrophic collapse by
  246. making the learning of VMS accessible and practical to the current and
  247. future generations of computer science students, then the application
  248. is worth buying, and if the VMS business, government and institutional
  249. installation ecology boot-straps back into vigor, then sales will
  250. naturally come their way.
  251.  
  252. Hewlett-Packard management of its' VMS asset is the greatest impediment
  253. to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
  254. intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
  255.  
  256. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
  257. that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
  258. are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
  259.  
  260. -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
  261. ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
  262.  
  263. One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
  264.  
  265. $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
  266.  
  267. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
  268.  
  269. -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
  270.  
  271. We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
  272. regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
  273. committed to routing around it.
  274.  
  275. The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
  276. property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
  277. to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
  278. parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
  279.  
  280. Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
  281. realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
  282. inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
  283. they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, freeware hardware
  284. emulators and the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered products program.
  285.  
  286. The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
  287. reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
  288. ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
  289. generations of computer science students from being able to study,
  290. learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
  291. LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
  292. VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
  293.  
  294. Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
  295. and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
  296. proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
  297. Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
  298. property.
  299.  
  300. This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
  301.  
  302. However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
  303. is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
  304. vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
  305. manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
  306. With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
  307. HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
  308. and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
  309. fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
  310. individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
  311. nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
  312.  
  313. The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
  314. shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
  315. tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
  316. principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
  317. part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
  318. in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
  319. General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
  320. Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
  321. of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
  322. your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
  323. share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
  324. activism.
  325.  
  326. As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
  327. angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
  328. share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
  329. decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
  330. income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
  331. in all tiers of computing.
  332.  
  333. As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or past
  334. principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be damned, to
  335. become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the VMS asset,
  336. disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of VMS, let
  337. alone the butchering of VMS maintenance and research and development.
  338.  
  339. As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
  340. customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
  341. leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
  342. not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
  343. but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
  344. base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
  345. aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
  346. activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
  347.  
  348. Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
  349. the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
  350. merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
  351. malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
  352. either by need or by sagacious choice, either way they see VMS as being
  353. critical to their business operations, hence they are strongly
  354. motivated in matters VMS.
  355.  
  356. If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
  357. reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be competing
  358. against each other in particular markets, the one thing they would
  359. agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
  360. competitive differences is the enduring merit of the VMS operating
  361. system as a foundation of their business, thence they can cooperatively
  362. constellate to prosecute, vigorously and intelligently, the VMS cause,
  363. in rational self interest, collectively.
  364.  
  365. The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
  366. could all purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a VMS
  367. Industry Association, with a VMS Engineering quality carefully
  368. constructed constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
  369. any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
  370. holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
  371. levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
  372. also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent.
  373.  
  374. It is also in the realm of possibility, perhaps not probability, but
  375. that would have to be tested in practice, that such a VMS Industry
  376. Association might be able to force the installation of a Director on
  377. the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of its'
  378. members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
  379. result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
  380. Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
  381. effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
  382. money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
  383. infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
  384. SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
  385. systems; indeed it would be incumbent due diligence on the VMS Advocacy
  386. director to determine whether HP management have been practicing deep
  387. fraud in this regard for the last decade.
  388.  
  389. This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised VMS
  390. installations customer and vendor base can do, if it cooperatively
  391. constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of the VMS
  392. Liberation Movement.
  393.  
  394. "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
  395. in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
  396. Russian national interest."
  397.  
  398. -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
  399.  
  400. The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
  401. decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
  402. a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
  403. that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
  404. never has been.
  405.  
  406. The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
  407. in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
  408. Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
  409. cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
  410. and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
  411. back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
  412. management - they must be called to account.
  413.  
  414. The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
  415. Microsoft.
  416.  
  417. Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
  418. give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
  419. excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
  420. price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
  421. excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
  422. maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
  423. market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
  424. benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
  425. giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
  426. disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
  427.  
  428. Let us review salient historical events:
  429.  
  430. 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
  431. from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
  432.  
  433. 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
  434.  
  435. 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
  436. 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
  437. (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
  438. three-tier client/server environment...
  439.  
  440. 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
  441.  
  442. The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
  443. assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
  444. architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
  445. was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
  446. ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
  447. and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
  448. comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
  449. terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
  450. security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
  451. 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
  452. true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
  453.  
  454. Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
  455. those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
  456. commercially namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
  457. ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
  458. operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
  459. to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
  460. on any architectures.
  461.  
  462. The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
  463. fold:
  464.  
  465. 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
  466. Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
  467. negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
  468.  
  469. 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
  470. post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
  471. 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
  472. VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
  473.  
  474. It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
  475. getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
  476. directly head-on, in its' eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
  477. the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
  478. volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
  479. term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
  480. income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
  481. near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
  482.  
  483. The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
  484. rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
  485. response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
  486. threat would become very real indeed.
  487.  
  488. The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its' VMS asset has
  489. always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
  490. conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
  491. the senselessness.
  492.  
  493. The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
  494. HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
  495. within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
  496. identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
  497. cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
  498. re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
  499. and removed.
  500.  
  501. The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
  502. the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
  503. advertising or promotion and it is time at its' 35th Anniversary that
  504. it was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM
  505. CPU Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New
  506. Technology series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
  507.  
  508. To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
  509. technology, is as absurd as asserting that the bio-chemistry of your
  510. DNA and your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
  511. proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
  512. computation, from the enterprise to the personal and the ecological
  513. balance needs to be restored.
  514.  
  515. When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
  516. VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms
  517. of myth and legend.
  518.  
  519. The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
  520. Operating System and its' thriving third-party applications, services
  521. and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
  522. precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
  523. and its' third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
  524. is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
  525.  
  526. This 0.9.2.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
  527. be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
  528. basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
  529. fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
  530. passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
  531. Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
  532. have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
  533. strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
  534. and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
  535.  
  536. "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
  537. our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
  538. industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
  539. meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
  540. excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
  541. to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
  542.  
  543. -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
  544. Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
  545.  
  546. $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] --------------------------------------!$
  547.  
  548. We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
  549. commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware emulators.
  550.  
  551. We welcome the supply of OpenVMS Operating System and Layered Product
  552. source-code.
  553.  
  554. Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the ACtiViSM charter for our
  555. motivations in requesting such supply.
  556.  
  557. Thank you.
  558.  
  559. $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
  560.  
  561. iRC: N/A
  562. Web: N/A
  563. Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
  564. Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
  565. E-mail: mailto:[email protected] (please use OpenPGP Encryption)
  566. Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  567. Webform: https://forms.hush.com/vlf (OpenPGP encrypted)
  568.  
  569. Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
  570. VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
  571. VLF that you approve of our manifesto or methods, nor that you wish to
  572. join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
  573. corrections and refinements to the accuracy of our historical
  574. understanding and also to our analytical rigour.
  575.  
  576. One way to communicate to us in a traceless, or at least plausibly
  577. deniable way is to communicate via the hush mail encrypted webform,
  578. from a Tor-ified browser:
  579.  
  580. https://forms.hush.com/vlf
  581.  
  582. http://www.torproject.org/
  583.  
  584. We highly recommend familiarising and mastering either of the Liberte
  585. Linux or Tails Live CD systems for communicating to us, (or at the very
  586. least as a Tor-ified browser resource):
  587.  
  588. http://dee.su/liberte
  589.  
  590. https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
  591.  
  592. The only problem with using the hush mail web-form is that we can't
  593. communicate back to you. But if you have something important to send to
  594. us, then that is a fairly traceless way to do it.
  595.  
  596. If you wish to contact the VLF with full two way communication we would
  597. encourage you to establish a secondary email account and then to use
  598. PGP encryption, when communicating to us - to establish both your
  599. anonymity and your plausible deniability that you have done so.
  600.  
  601. Our OpenPGP public key can be obtained from:
  602.  
  603. https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  604.  
  605. Set up an opaquely named e-mail address which allows direct SSL
  606. enabled, POP and IMAP access from your computer's e-mail client.
  607.  
  608. These e-mail providers, for example, allow SSL enabled direct POP and
  609. IMAP access:
  610.  
  611. http://www.gmx.com http://www.fastmail.fm
  612.  
  613. http://www.yahoomail.com http://www.lavabit.com
  614.  
  615. Thus you could install GnuPG or GPG4Win on your system and that would
  616. enables two way communication with the VLF in encrypted form:
  617.  
  618. http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
  619.  
  620. Note, however, that ordinary e-mail correspondence, encrypted or not,
  621. clearly fingers your IP addresses.
  622.  
  623. Therefore for the commissioning and the usage of any such e-mail
  624. address always transact such sessions at a public wi-fi portal and
  625. never on your home or work networks, that way such IP remains
  626. 'firewalled' from tracing.
  627.  
  628. Of course, the fact that you have communicated to us is still clearly
  629. present in your e-mail records on your computer. A practical
  630. alternative is to configure a persistent version of Liberte Linux on an
  631. encrypted USB stick or SD card, and only conduct e-mail correspondence
  632. from that system booted onto a laptop, which is used at a public wi-fi
  633. portal.
  634.  
  635. Another alternative is to commission a free Hushmail encrypted web-mail
  636. account via a tor-ified browser and to then always use that hushmail
  637. account via a tor-ified browser.
  638.  
  639. https://www.hushmail.com
  640.  
  641. The problem with free hushmail accounts is that they have to be logged
  642. into every three weeks otherwise they convert to a paid account; a paid
  643. account is quite convenient and can be anonymously purchased using the
  644. method described hence.
  645.  
  646. If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a
  647. cyber-locker/file-host, these are recommended:
  648.  
  649. http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
  650.  
  651. Of course uploading via a tor-ified browser client.
  652.  
  653. For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
  654. newsgroup:
  655.  
  656. alt.binaries.test
  657.  
  658. Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
  659. provider.
  660.  
  661. Recommended tools:
  662.  
  663. http://www.jbinup.com/ or -
  664.  
  665. http://powerpost.free.fr/ used with https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
  666.  
  667. Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
  668. locate a suitably tolerant public wi-fi access point to upload from and
  669. then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
  670.  
  671. If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
  672. pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
  673. on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
  674. authentication and not a mobile phone number.
  675.  
  676. In commissioning a working e-mail address and hence also a synthetic
  677. identity, Yahoomail, at least, tolerates tor-ified browser use,
  678. otherwise use internet cafes or public wi-fi portals for the
  679. commissioning and usage of that e-mail account consistently and
  680. exclusively.
  681.  
  682. Once you have established the synthetic identity and the pre-paid debit
  683. card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet access, whence
  684. you can execute the uploads from a public-access wi-fi portal.
  685.  
  686. Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
  687. tor-ified browsers for transactions and so for the actual purchase we
  688. recommend using a public portal; Internet Cafes that boot fresh O/S
  689. images from their intranet for each and every session are a recommended
  690. resource.
  691.  
  692. By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
  693. and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
  694.  
  695. We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
  696. safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
  697. consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet.
  698.  
  699. This is a useful guide, generally speaking:
  700.  
  701. Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
  702.  
  703. http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
  704.  
  705. Of course if you think any of this advice is technically naive and
  706. could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then please
  707. do not hesitate to correct us and to suggest better methods and
  708. processes, thank you.
  709.  
  710. However the VLF consider the methods outlined to be a useful basis from
  711. which to start thinking about secure anonymous communication and we
  712. think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers, VMS activists, and
  713. those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) that see the need to
  714. let some sunshine in on HP VMS policy, and to let some sunshine out,
  715. such as the source code for VMS and Layered Products.
  716.  
  717. YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
  718. difficult.
  719.  
  720. $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
  721. $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
  722. $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
  723. ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.2.0 - 2012-10-25 - !xD :..
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