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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nobeltech!ppan
- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Subject: Re: SunPro/Tech software licensing...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.162637.4175@nobeltech.se>
- Keywords: sunc++3.0.1, Sunc2.0, sparcworks, licensing
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- References: <1992Dec19.003618.20466@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:26:37 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Dec19.003618.20466@netcom.com> kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:
- > My question out of the story is: Isn't all this new licensing things
- >that came out suppose to make life easier for a sys admin? or it's only me
- >that having problem? I've enough to do on my hands, I don't this licensing
- >crab to complicate my life.
-
- As I understand this, after discussions in other groups, and from experience
- this is because the vendors want a couple of things:
-
- They say that there is much software pirating in South America, and in
- Russia. So they force this upon us Europeans and you North Americans.
- (This is from a discussion of IP/NFS packages for PCs)
-
- They want you to buy somebody elses product, because you don't have the
- time or money to waste on dealing with exactly what you descibed.
-
- Pick your choice.
-
- If, for example SUN, were serious about this, the licence manager would
- be included in the system, and for FREE. So every vendor didn't include
- thei own licence manager, a little bit different than the other. And as
- for the one SUN uses, it has a smallest timeframe for how long you allocate
- a license, which is 15 or 30 minutes. Just so you need to buy double the
- amount of licenses you really need. Who has a compile that take 15 minutes ?
- SUN and the others for that has to get their act together soon, or else we
- all vill be running VMS on Alphas soon. At least VMS works, and has the
- basic tools needed included. And it even works in clusters.
-
- /Per
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