Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:30:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Sep 25, 96 02:12:10 pm
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[ ... lots of argument on "why it is impossible" ... ]
Fine, then you don't get licenses.
Surprising that SCO, Sun, and Linux (all PC OS's) all have working
versions of Flex/LM and other license management software, what
with it being impossible and all...
Discussion:
o If your topology prefix is subject to change, don't include
it. It's just "one more damn thing" to push you over the
allowed 32 bit limit anyway.
o If "someone over you" changes the topology by positional
fiat ("I am the VP and that's the way it will be"), then
*they* can eat the cost of what they want done. It is a
matter of physics. You can not change the way things
operate simply because you dislike it. There are unavoidable
consequences to irrational acts, and having to update your
licenses in this situation is one of them.
Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this".
Doctor: "Don't do that".
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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