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From: langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Experiences with "The Publisher" from ArborText
Message-ID: <1526@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Date: 4 Mar 88 04:53:57 GMT
References: <318@apex.UUCP> <3995@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <7262@sol.ARPA>
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca
Lines: 32
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, WYSIWYG
Summary: it's the honor system

In article <7262@sol.ARPA>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
> |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.
> |
> |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
> ...
> If not enforced, then what was the point of the limitation?

I don't know about Publisher, but our network of ~10 Suns, got TeX, a
screen previewer, and postscript spooler, from ArborText (TextSet) 2 years ago.
We got a 2-user license, altho I was the only user until everyone jumped
on it a couple of months ago, and even though we knew that NOTHING in 
their software prevented abuse. Last year the lab of which we are a part
got a site license, so we remain in compliance now that there are many
users on our network.
Hopefully other customers follow the rules too. I hope so. ArborText
gives good value for our $. And other companies too that don't have
licenses linked to workstation serial numbers.
Other people at this lab have and like Publisher. I exchange TeX source
files with people elsewhere, so I've been cautious. Otherwise...
Interleaf and Framemaker would have to be much better than Publisher
before I'd touch them.
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