Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!oliveb!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: Dynix licensing Keywords: license, user-limits Message-ID: <86123@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 18:17:08 GMT References: <6006@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> <633@pbseps.UUCP> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 14 In article <633@pbseps.UUCP> perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes: >I was told by Sequent that the user limit is part of the AT&T license >agreement.... I do not know why some other vendors do not use such a limit, >but here is one possible way they could avoid it: Simply include a license >sized appropiately to the machines maximum capacity. A large system like a >Pyramid might simply charge you for the max license on purchase. Both Pyramid and Sun used to have number-of-user licenses, since that was the way AT&T billed for it. But AT&T abadoned this licensing scheme years ago. Once AT&T dropped it, both Pyramid and Sun immediately dropped it too, since the customers didn't like it and it was a hassle to maintain. BTW, as far as I know, neither old OSx or SunOS had anything to enforce the user limit.