>From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Whoops. Sorry for the blank-o. >At any rate, some friends of mine and I had a similar discussion the other day. >Without a home cell, the AFS client is mostly useless, which means that if >anything, giving away the client would encourage more people to buy the server >software. Essentially it would be a free demo, but of course you really >wouldn;t be able to write anything anywhere, so you wouldn't get a demo of >those capabilities. >People have periodically talked about a free version of the AFS client. Anyone >still thinking about it? Yes, count me in. However, in our situation, we have the servers at Brookhaven National Lab. Colaboration institutions which don't have AFS server have to buy AFS client for their machines even they belong to BNL home cell. Transarc wouldn't be happy in this case if they give out AFS client free. Tom N.
