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From: brownell@harvard.UUCP (Dave Brownell)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
Subject: SW licensing -- local networks
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Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 20:49:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 20:49:12 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 04:28:23 EST
Organization: Sequoia Systems Inc., Marlborough Mass.
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... too many piracy flames in net.micro ...

How 'bout thinking the fun we'll be having in a few years?

With microprocessor prices going down, and more computers floating
round, the impetus seems to be towards putting lots of them together.

How about distibuted systems based on, say, the AppleBus?  If a
company (school, ...) buys one copy of some program and puts it on
their 30 Mbyte file server connected to twenty MacIntoshes, what
should they pay?  The fee for one home Mac is too low ... but probably
twenty times that is too high.

Developers could charge a rate dependant on the number of users,
or how much the software is used, but how would that be enforced?

Any takers?  What would be fair?


Dave Brownell
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