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>HP was already starting to give hobbyist licenses to anyone who wanted to tinker with it. Then, and after a few months, they revoked the licenses for some unknown reasons.
I didn't hear about that but HPE management have a well earned reputation for being obtuse. The people over at VSI were extremely professional and easy to work with. They still give out free (one year long?) license PAKs to anyone who wants them for non-commercial research or hobbyist use.

The rub is that when they negotiated with HPE to spin off VMS development they were only able to license products built for specific architectures; Alpha, Itanium, and Intel x86_64. VAX licensing is off the table now because they'd be contractually obligated to support it but can't because the VAX source and tooling was reportedly too damaged. So for a real VAX or SimH running 7.3 just look up LMFGEN.EXE (for MS Wingdings) and you can generate a lifetime license PAK for Ken Olsen.

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Today Microsoft open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0.https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

Today Microsoft open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0.
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS