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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: SunPro/Tech software licensing...
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 18:59:57 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 22
- Message-ID: <1gvrfdINNchf@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Dec19.003618.20466@netcom.com>
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- Keywords: sunc++3.0.1, Sunc2.0, sparcworks, licensing
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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.
-
- Someone else already gave the cynical answer, so I'll suggest the answer
- that gives the vendors the benefit of the doubt.
-
- No, license managers aren't supposed to make administration easier. It's
- supposed to make it easier for *users* to stay within the restrictions of
- the licenses that were purchased. Without license managers, users might
- inadvertently run more simultaneous instances of the program than they
- purchased.
-
- If this requires more work on the part of the sysadmin to install and
- maintain, that's the breaks.
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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