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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Problems with Framemaker
Message-ID: <246@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 17 Aug 90 01:05:54 GMT
References: <1715@abvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1715@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>About 6 months ago, I bought a SUN Sparcstation 1. I also bought the
>Framemaker 2.0 package for Sunview. Frame is licensed to the hostid
>of the workstation.
> ...
>					To my horror, they indicated that
>I could not sell the package since I was not a "Frame Reseller". I
>couldn't believe it. The way they would enforce it would be to *not* give
>a valid password to whoever bought the package from me. This would be
>like the state not granting you a license tag for a car because you
>were not the original owner. In fact, I'm not sure if this is legal.
> ...
>Anyway, anyone thinking of buying Framemaker should give this some
>serious thought beforehand.

Since you posted this only to comp.sys.next, I feel compelled to point
out that FrameMaker on the NeXT computer doesn't use a licensing scheme
like the one used on Sun equipment.  The product is licensed for use on
a single workstation, but the password comes in the box with the product,
and doesn't require the hostid to work.  I don't think that the same
situation could arise for the NeXT machine, although it's possible that
Frame views the licensing arrangement the same way (e.g. would not support
the product if you sold it to somebody else, etc).

That's still a vexing situation, and I wish you luck.  $2500 is a lot of
money.

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