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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. Stromasys.CHARON-11.v2.5.Build.117.Retail.WinALL.x86.Cracked-VLF
  32.  
  33. SOFTWARE NAME: Stromasys CHARON-11 v2.5 Build 117
  34. SOFTWARE TYPE: Hardware Virtualisation
  35. DEVELOPER....: Stromasys SA, Switzerland
  36. URL..........: http://www.stromasys.ch/charon-11/index.htm
  37.  
  38. VLF RCE.....: Subcommandante BYPASS RELEASE TYPE....: HARDWARE EMULATOR
  39. SUPPLiER....: TEAM VLF RELEASE DATE....: 2013-10-25
  40. PACKER......: TEAM VLF RELEASE DiSKS...: 7 X 5M
  41. LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaaf*
  42. PROTECTiON..: HASP HL Dongle MEDiCiNE........: Dongle Emulator
  43. PLATFORM....: WinXP x86, Win2k3 x86
  44.  
  45. $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE.DESCRiPTiON] ---------------------------!$
  46.  
  47. CHARON-11 is a PDP- 11 emulator, i.e. a software package emulating the
  48. hardware of a PDP-11 system. It provides a very detailed and precise
  49. software model of a PDP-11 CPU, memory, disks, tapes, serial lines and
  50. other peripherals.
  51.  
  52. CHARON-11 is an emulator of hardware, it does not emulate a PDP-11
  53. operating system or any PDP-11 software. By emulating hardware,
  54. CHARON-11 allows you to transfer all your existing binary PDP-11 code
  55. to the emulator without the limitations of a PDP-11 operating system
  56. emulator. No binary code modifications or PDP-11 source code are
  57. required.
  58.  
  59. CHARON-11 can execute binary PDP-11 code much faster than the fastest
  60. PDP-11 system build by Digital Equipment Corporation. CHARON-11 is
  61. field proven: leading companies around the world use CHARON-11 to
  62. support critical process control systems.
  63.  
  64. The table below shows the PDP-11 CPUs that CHARON-11 can emulate. Each
  65. CPU type is associated with either a QBUS or a UNIBUS. The type of bus
  66. determines which peripherals can be connected:
  67.  
  68. CPU model Bus Type CPU Model Bus Type CPU Model Bus Type
  69.  
  70. PDP 11/03 QBUS PDP 11/34 UNIBUS PDP 11/60 UNIBUS
  71. PDP 11/04 UNIBUS PDP 11/34A UNIBUS PDP 11/70 UNIBUS
  72. PDP 11/05 UNIBUS PDP 11/35 UNIBUS PDP 11/73 QBUS
  73. PDP 11/10 UNIBUS PDP 11/40 UNIBUS PDP 11/83 QBUS
  74. PDP 11/15 UNIBUS PDP 11/44 UNIBUS PDP 11/84 UNIBUS
  75. PDP 11/20 UNIBUS PDP 11/45 UNIBUS PDP 11/93 QBUS
  76. PDP 11/21 UNIBUS PDP 11/50 UNIBUS PDP 11/94 UNIBUS
  77. PDP 11/23 QBUS PDP 11/53 QBUS LSI QBUS
  78. PDP 11/24 UNIBUS PDP 11/55 UNIBUS
  79.  
  80. The CHARON-11 emulator can also emulate the PRO-350/380 personal
  81. computer.
  82.  
  83. The CHARON-11 emulator was retired by Stromasys as of December 2006.
  84.  
  85. The CHARON-11 emulator was liberated by the VLF as of October 2013.
  86.  
  87. $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
  88.  
  89. Read, carefully, the "install.readme.first.txt" plain-text file in the
  90. release archive save-set.
  91.  
  92. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
  93.  
  94. "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it
  95. up 'em."
  96.  
  97. -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
  98.  
  99. Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
  100. Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
  101.  
  102. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
  103.  
  104. NB: We were aiming for a v1.0.0.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
  105. MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10 (2012), but health issues and
  106. the vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua
  107. ad astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
  108.  
  109. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
  110.  
  111. --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
  112. <v0.9.3.0 BETA>
  113.  
  114. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
  115.  
  116. That in VMS we trust.
  117.  
  118. That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
  119. conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
  120. immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
  121. 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
  122. level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
  123. devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
  124.  
  125. That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
  126. developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
  127. and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
  128. expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
  129. parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
  130. current and future generations of humanity.
  131.  
  132. That the VMS Operating System should be simultaneously ported to all
  133. of the Intel CPU architectures, both 32 and 64 bit, where all of the
  134. Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating Systems are
  135. manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also ported
  136. to the 32 and 64 bit ARM architectures.
  137.  
  138. That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
  139. Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
  140. Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
  141. Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
  142. and governments and so that the research and development, the
  143. evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
  144.  
  145. That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
  146. machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
  147. Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
  148. swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
  149.  
  150. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
  151.  
  152. The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System is on the 25th
  153. of October 2012.
  154.  
  155. The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
  156.  
  157. http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
  158.  
  159. We recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion; sink
  160. several in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable, unkillable, VMS!
  161.  
  162. We also recommend quaffing lagered products for the 36th Anniversary of
  163. the mighty VMS operating system as well!
  164.  
  165. $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
  166.  
  167. No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
  168. Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
  169.  
  170. You get that on the big jobs.
  171.  
  172. $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
  173.  
  174. /""-._
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  196. :--`` )/
  197.  
  198. The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
  199. completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
  200. evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
  201. represents.
  202.  
  203. http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
  204.  
  205. Refresh your memories:
  206.  
  207. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
  208. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
  209.  
  210. We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
  211. Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
  212. Digital Equipment Corporation.
  213.  
  214. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
  215.  
  216. $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
  217.  
  218. The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its keygenning, cracking and
  219. reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
  220. intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
  221. cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
  222. too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
  223. stupidity of HP management.
  224.  
  225. The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
  226. ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
  227. operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
  228. specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
  229. from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
  230. coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
  231. entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
  232. and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
  233. course, the cost of software and hardware.
  234.  
  235. Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
  236. Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
  237. literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
  238. computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
  239. methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly on
  240. matters computing.
  241.  
  242. Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
  243. world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
  244. CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
  245. literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
  246.  
  247. So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
  248. church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
  249. study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence and confidence and
  250. if they start earning money from their VMS skills, then it's time to
  251. buy the tools they use.
  252.  
  253. Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
  254. their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
  255.  
  256. The VLF does not condone or approve of its releases being used for
  257. commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
  258. reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
  259. current and future generations.
  260.  
  261. The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
  262. engineer, since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus, instead, we
  263. reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their application
  264. worth cracking and integrating into the tool-kit to assist in
  265. boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology from catastrophic collapse by
  266. making the learning of VMS accessible and practical to the current and
  267. future generations of computer science students, then the application
  268. is worth buying, and if the VMS business, government and institutional
  269. installation ecology boot-straps back into vigor, then sales will
  270. naturally come their way.
  271.  
  272. Hewlett-Packard management of its VMS asset is the greatest impediment
  273. to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
  274. intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
  275.  
  276. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
  277. that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
  278. are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
  279.  
  280. -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
  281. ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
  282.  
  283. One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
  284.  
  285. $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
  286.  
  287. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
  288.  
  289. -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
  290.  
  291. We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
  292. regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
  293. committed to routing around it.
  294.  
  295. The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
  296. property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
  297. to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
  298. parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
  299.  
  300. Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
  301. realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
  302. inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
  303. they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, freeware hardware
  304. emulators and the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered products program.
  305.  
  306. The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
  307. reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
  308. ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
  309. generations of computer science students from being able to study,
  310. learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
  311. LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
  312. VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
  313.  
  314. Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
  315. and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
  316. proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
  317. Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
  318. property.
  319.  
  320. This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
  321.  
  322. However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
  323. is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
  324. vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
  325. manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
  326. With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
  327. HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
  328. and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
  329. fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
  330. individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
  331. nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
  332.  
  333. The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
  334. shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
  335. tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
  336. principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
  337. part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
  338. in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
  339. General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
  340. Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
  341. of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
  342. your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
  343. share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
  344. activism.
  345.  
  346. As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
  347. angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
  348. share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
  349. decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
  350. income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
  351. in all tiers of computing.
  352.  
  353. As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or past
  354. principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be damned, to
  355. become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the VMS asset,
  356. disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of VMS, let
  357. alone the butchering of VMS maintenance and research and development.
  358.  
  359. As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
  360. customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
  361. leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
  362. not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
  363. but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
  364. base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
  365. aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
  366. activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
  367.  
  368. Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
  369. the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
  370. merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
  371. malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
  372. either by need or by sagacious choice, either way they see VMS as being
  373. critical to their business operations, hence they are strongly
  374. motivated in matters VMS.
  375.  
  376. If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
  377. reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be competing
  378. against each other in particular markets, the one thing they would
  379. agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
  380. competitive differences is the enduring merit of the VMS operating
  381. system as a foundation of their business, thence they can cooperatively
  382. constellate to prosecute, vigorously and intelligently, the VMS cause,
  383. in rational self interest, collectively.
  384.  
  385. The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
  386. could all purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a VMS
  387. Industry Association, with a VMS Engineering quality carefully
  388. constructed constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
  389. any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
  390. holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
  391. levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
  392. also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent.
  393.  
  394. It is also in the realm of possibility, perhaps not probability, but
  395. that would have to be tested in practice, that such a VMS Industry
  396. Association might be able to force the installation of a Director on
  397. the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of its
  398. members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
  399. result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
  400. Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
  401. effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
  402. money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
  403. infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
  404. SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
  405. systems; indeed it would be incumbent due diligence on the VMS Advocacy
  406. director to determine whether HP management have been practicing deep
  407. fraud in this regard for the last decade.
  408.  
  409. This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised VMS
  410. installations customer and vendor base can do, if it cooperatively
  411. constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of the VMS
  412. Liberation Movement.
  413.  
  414. "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
  415. in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
  416. Russian national interest."
  417.  
  418. -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
  419.  
  420. The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
  421. decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
  422. a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
  423. that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
  424. never has been.
  425.  
  426. The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
  427. in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
  428. Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
  429. cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
  430. and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
  431. back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
  432. management - they must be called to account.
  433.  
  434. The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
  435. Microsoft.
  436.  
  437. Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
  438. give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
  439. excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
  440. price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
  441. excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
  442. maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
  443. market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
  444. benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
  445. giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
  446. disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
  447.  
  448. Let us review salient historical events:
  449.  
  450. 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
  451. from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
  452.  
  453. 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
  454.  
  455. 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
  456. 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
  457. (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
  458. three-tier client/server environment...
  459.  
  460. 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
  461.  
  462. The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
  463. assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
  464. architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
  465. was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
  466. ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
  467. and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
  468. comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
  469. terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
  470. security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
  471. 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
  472. true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
  473.  
  474. Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
  475. those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
  476. commercially namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
  477. ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
  478. operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
  479. to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
  480. on any architectures.
  481.  
  482. The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
  483. fold:
  484.  
  485. 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
  486. Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
  487. negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
  488.  
  489. 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
  490. post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
  491. 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
  492. VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
  493.  
  494. It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
  495. getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
  496. directly head-on, in its eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
  497. the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
  498. volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
  499. term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
  500. income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
  501. near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
  502.  
  503. The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
  504. rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
  505. response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
  506. threat would become very real indeed.
  507.  
  508. The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its VMS asset has
  509. always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
  510. conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
  511. the senselessness.
  512.  
  513. The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
  514. HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
  515. within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
  516. identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
  517. cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
  518. re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
  519. and removed.
  520.  
  521. The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
  522. the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
  523. advertising or promotion and it is time at its 35th Anniversary that it
  524. was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM CPU
  525. Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New Technology
  526. series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
  527.  
  528. To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
  529. technology, is as absurd as asserting that the bio-chemistry of your
  530. DNA and your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
  531. proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
  532. computation, from the enterprise to the personal and the ecological
  533. balance needs to be restored.
  534.  
  535. When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
  536. VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms of
  537. myth and legend.
  538.  
  539. The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
  540. Operating System and its thriving third-party applications, services
  541. and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
  542. precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
  543. and its third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
  544. is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
  545.  
  546. This 0.9.3.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
  547. be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
  548. basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
  549. fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
  550. passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
  551. Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
  552. have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
  553. strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
  554. and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
  555.  
  556. "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
  557. our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
  558. industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
  559. meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
  560. excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
  561. to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
  562.  
  563. -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
  564. Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
  565.  
  566. $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] --------------------------------------!$
  567.  
  568. We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
  569. commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware emulators.
  570.  
  571. We welcome the supply of OpenVMS Operating System and Layered Product
  572. source-code; ideally in "self regenerating" DECset form; but not
  573. limited to that - all source code is welcome.
  574.  
  575. Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the ACtiViSM charter for our
  576. motivations in requesting such supply.
  577.  
  578. Thank you.
  579.  
  580. $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
  581.  
  582. iRC: N/A
  583. Web: N/A
  584. Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
  585. Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
  586. E-mail: mailto:[email protected] (please use OpenPGP Encryption)
  587. Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  588. Webform: https://forms.hush.com/vlf (OpenPGP encrypted)
  589.  
  590. Manifesto: http://is.gd/VLF_MANiFESTO
  591. Releases: http://is.gd/VLF_RELEASES
  592. Communiques: http://is.gd/VLF_COMMUNiQUES
  593.  
  594. NOTE: In light of the Edward Snowden NSA/PRISM revelations in mid-2013,
  595. this new privacy, security and anonymity resource directory has arisen:
  596.  
  597. https://prism-break.org/
  598.  
  599. Please familarise yourself with it, before contacting the VLF.
  600.  
  601. Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
  602. VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
  603. VLF that you approve of our manifesto or methods, nor that you wish to
  604. join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
  605. corrections and refinements to the accuracy of our historical
  606. understanding and also to our analytical rigour.
  607.  
  608. One way to communicate to us in a traceless, or at least plausibly
  609. deniable way is to communicate via the hush mail encrypted webform,
  610. from a Tor-ified browser:
  611. https://forms.hush.com/vlf
  612.  
  613. http://www.torproject.org/
  614.  
  615. We highly recommend familiarising and mastering either of the Liberte
  616. Linux or Tails Live CD systems for communicating to us, (or at the very
  617. least as a Tor-ified browser resource):
  618.  
  619. http://dee.su/liberte
  620.  
  621. https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
  622.  
  623. The only problem with using the hush mail web-form is that we can't
  624. communicate back to you. But if you have something important to send to
  625. us, then that is a fairly traceless way to do it.
  626.  
  627. If you wish to contact the VLF with full two way communication we would
  628. encourage you to establish a secondary email account and then to use
  629. PGP encryption, when communicating to us - to establish both your
  630. anonymity and your plausible deniability that you have done so.
  631.  
  632. Our OpenPGP public key can be obtained from:
  633.  
  634. https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  635.  
  636. Set up an opaquely named e-mail address which allows direct SSL
  637. enabled, POP and IMAP access from your computer's e-mail client.
  638.  
  639. These e-mail providers, for example, allow SSL enabled direct POP and
  640. IMAP access:
  641.  
  642. http://www.gmx.com http://www.fastmail.fm
  643.  
  644. http://www.yahoomail.com http://www.lavabit.com
  645.  
  646. (NOTE: Sadly, the immaculate Lavabit service is currently unavailable,
  647. due to the noble NSA/PRISM activism of the developer, Ladar Levison, in
  648. constitutionally challenging his National Security Letter.)
  649.  
  650. Thus you could install GnuPG or GPG4Win on your system and that would
  651. enables two way communication with the VLF in encrypted form:
  652.  
  653. http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
  654.  
  655. Note, however, that ordinary e-mail correspondence, encrypted or not,
  656. clearly fingers your IP addresses.
  657.  
  658. Therefore for the commissioning and the usage of any such e-mail
  659. address always transact such sessions at a public wi-fi portal and
  660. never on your home or work networks, that way such IP remains
  661. 'firewalled' from tracing.
  662.  
  663. Of course, the fact that you have communicated to us is still clearly
  664. present in your e-mail records on your computer. A practical
  665. alternative is to configure a persistent version of Liberte Linux on an
  666. encrypted USB stick or SD card, and only conduct e-mail correspondence
  667. from that system booted onto a laptop, which is used at a public wi-fi
  668. portal.
  669.  
  670. Another alternative is to commission a free Hushmail encrypted web-mail
  671. account via a tor-ified browser and to then always use that hushmail
  672. account via a tor-ified browser.
  673.  
  674. https://www.hushmail.com
  675.  
  676. The problem with free hushmail accounts is that they have to be logged
  677. into every three weeks otherwise they convert to a paid account; a paid
  678. account is quite convenient and can be anonymously purchased using the
  679. method described hence.
  680.  
  681. If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a
  682. cyber-locker/file-host, these are recommended:
  683.  
  684. http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
  685.  
  686. Of course uploading via a tor-ified browser client.
  687.  
  688. For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
  689. newsgroup:
  690.  
  691. alt.binaries.test
  692.  
  693. Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
  694. provider.
  695.  
  696. Recommended tools:
  697.  
  698. http://www.jbinup.com/ or -
  699.  
  700. http://powerpost.free.fr/ used with https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
  701.  
  702. Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
  703. locate a suitably tolerant public wi-fi access point to upload from and
  704. then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
  705.  
  706. If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
  707. pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
  708. on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
  709. authentication and not a mobile phone number.
  710.  
  711. In commissioning a working e-mail address and hence also a synthetic
  712. identity, Yahoomail, at least, tolerates tor-ified browser use,
  713. otherwise use internet cafes or public wi-fi portals for the
  714. commissioning and usage of that e-mail account consistently and
  715. exclusively.
  716.  
  717. Once you have established the synthetic identity and the pre-paid debit
  718. card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet access, whence
  719. you can execute the uploads from a public-access wi-fi portal.
  720.  
  721. Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
  722. tor-ified browsers for transactions and so for the actual purchase we
  723. recommend using a public portal; Internet Cafes that boot fresh O/S
  724. images from their intranet for each and every session are a recommended
  725. resource.
  726.  
  727. By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
  728. and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
  729.  
  730. We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
  731. safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
  732. consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet.
  733.  
  734. This is a useful guide, generally speaking:
  735.  
  736. Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
  737.  
  738. http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
  739.  
  740. Of course if you think any of this advice is technically naive and
  741. could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then please
  742. do not hesitate to correct us and to suggest better methods and
  743. processes, thank you.
  744.  
  745. However the VLF consider the methods outlined to be a useful basis from
  746. which to start thinking about secure anonymous communication and we
  747. think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers, VMS activists, and
  748. those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) that see the need to
  749. let some sunshine in on HP VMS policy, and to let some sunshine out,
  750. such as the source code for VMS and Layered Products.
  751.  
  752. YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
  753. difficult.
  754.  
  755. $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
  756. $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
  757. $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
  758. ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.3.0 - 2013-10-25 - !xD :..
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