We're not disagreeing. I forgot to mention machine-specific versus transferable licensing (thinking of Microsoft), licensing which can be support-entitled versus not (ditto), "site" licensing, and "enterprise" licensing.
The software vendor gets to decide its licensing metrics and pricing terms in the first instance, yes, but customers get to decide whether they want to license or not (and how much, and under what terms and conditions). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
