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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
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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.