[crispyambulance]

I don't get what the big deal is. I remember this book. It was useful back in the day, but really, has anyone really ever been pinched as an NR license violator? I expect some orgs paid for licenses, it's not an exorbitant amount. It probably amounted to little more than pocket change for the professor/author over the years. Is the guy lawsuit-crazy, I didn't see evidence of that.

If some grad student, postdoc or independent uses it and doesn't quite follow the license terms, I expect nothing will happen. Though they would probably do well to update their code base, eventually, for technical as well as license reasons if they "scale up" beyond using the code for a paper or two. But the tone of the OP's call to "Boycott" is a bit over the top, RMS-style, and not in a good way.