From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Oct 12 10:36:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3D737B401 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4E81; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:36:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3BC72A30.E0D45CFB@acuson.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:36:48 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Kastaki , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX and Networking References: <000201c152da$2df40700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Licensing is also > easy because since your apps are on the central server you don't have to > purchase > hundreds of copies of - say - Microsoft Word, you just purchase ONE copy of a > wordprocessor and everyone runs it from the central server. If only it were so simple! There are a few applications (at least in my company) that have "license servers" that only allow a certain number of users on at a time. A determined lawyer can bollux up any system, no matter how elegant. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message