From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 11:32:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03714 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03621; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA06376; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:30:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609251830.LAA06376@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Licensing Software To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 11:30:50 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9609251812.AA25774@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Sep 25, 96 02:12:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ ... 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.