In a message dated 4/18/2005 3:09:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I cannot stress that the points I raise are those that are raised by an
> international consortium of IBM, Microsoft, CA and others to clamp down on
> piracy. The perception is piracy is the corner market selling bootleg
> copies of Office, etc. However their focus is on licensing breaches. They
> see no difference between using 10 copies of word on 1 license of Word or
> providing 10 users access to a database with 1 user licenses.
>
I disagree with your interpretation of what you perceive to be happening.
Perhaps you could point us at a U2 or IBM site that specifically and
officially address this, otherwise I claim you're just making a mountain out of
something that they could care less about.
As has been pointed out, we are discussing WEB connectivity. Anything
that discusses anything other than WEB connectivity is not germane to the
conversation. Allowing 100 web users to use 10 licenses does not violate any
agreement with IBM or anyone else since those web users all share the 10
licenses
and are not persisting in the connection.
As has also been pointed out, unless you have a speedy system or a good
way to share, you may not be able to actually *get* 100 people to share 10
licenses in a timely manner. Your speed may vary.
When I was at Spectrum this was one of my questions to the various
web-solution providers, how many licenses do I need and how many web users can
I
support.
Without exception, the number of licenses is far less than the number of
web users, and IBM was right there with their booth hearing and being a party
to all of this and said nothing about it.
So, try those apples <insert smiley icon here>
Will Johnson
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