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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Lotus for sysV (multi-user?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.123223.3012@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 17 Aug 90 12:32:23 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Aug16.161501.18554@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) writes:
>Lotus is advertising a system V version.  I called and was told that it's
>available now; list prices around $950 single-user, and $1100 for up to 10
>users.  A clear example of pricing to reflect "value" rather than cost; but
>how do you suppose they limit the number of simultaneous users?

We did it with lock files, but the locking scheme isn't particularly hard to
subvert.

There is no copy-protection on 1-2-3, and the user counting code isn't there
to force you to do anything, it's there to help system administrators comply
with the terms of whatever version they have bought.

-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!esegue!johnl
Marlon Brando and Doris Day were born on the same day.