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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Experiences with "The Publisher" from ArborText
Message-ID: <7262@sol.ARPA>
Date: 1 Mar 88 04:38:50 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, WYSIWYG

|Let me repeat this. If you have 30 Suns, and you get a 5 user license,
|Publisher can be used on ANY of the 30 machines. But only 5 at a time.
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|FINALLY! A software vendor has come out of the dark ages!

I don't get it.

Is this enforced in the software?  So what happens when a secretary
wants to use Publisher but 2 other secretaries and 3 grad students are
already using it?  Go persuade somebody to logoff? Fume? (This is not a
hypothetical situation. It can be very real with a big user community.)

If not enforced, then what was the point of the limitation?

	Ken

PS: Certainly this type of license is novel but doesn't quite cut it.
Networked systems need better solutions.