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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:30:00 LCL
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- From: "Barker, Scott" <BARKER.ILS@MHS.UNC.EDU>
- Subject: Final OED Comment
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- Since I'm the one who got all this started, I think I should finish it
- off for good.....
-
- First I have to thank Ruth Glynn of OUP for giving us more information on
- their CD-ROM networking policy. What she had to say made MUCH more sense
- than what she said the first time around. In fact, the OUP networking
- policy AS STATED BY RUTH IN HER SECOND FOLLOW-UP is quite reasonable.
-
- Remember though, that in Ruth's first response to networking the OED -
- the tone was VERY VERY negative. We were told that networking the
- product IN ANY WAY was expressly forbidden and doing so violated the
- terms of the licenese. We were also told that OUP was developing a
- special network version so that they could be sure the terms of the
- license were not being violated and so they could protect their software.
-
- It was the tone of that first message that made me so upset. Now after
- all the discussion on the topic we hear different information. We hear
- that you CAN place the OED on a network by asking for permission to do so
- (when local use and simultaneous users are not possible), and we hear
- that the network version is being written to provide additional
- functionality and better performance (not just to do license metering).
-
- I wonder why these important tidbits were not mentioned in the first
- response? If I had heard more than THOU SHALT NOT... in the original
- posting, I'd never have complained so loudly.
-
- I congratulate OUP for their efforts and am glad we finally have the
- correct information. I hope that OUP gets this information out to all
- their customers and the THOU SHALT NOT... tone with regard to networking
- their products is gone forever.
-
- Thanks Ruth for clearing things up for me and others on the list. It
- looks like OUP is headed in the right direction with regard to networking
- their products.
-
- --Scott Barker
- Director of Computing
- School of Information and Library Science
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- barker@ils.unc.edu
-