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- From: GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: How to force a process into one CPU on a 6640?
- Message-ID: <930126171130.12f@IT.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:11:30 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- Date sent: 26-JAN-1993 17:07:03
-
- Tom Otoole commented:
- >
- >I'm curious if anyone has explored the license implications of this. By way of
- >concrete example, suppose Wingra Inc. wants to squeeze 3000$ out of me, plus an
- >extra 450$/yr. maintenance, because I add another CPU to a 6400 box. In a way
- >it seems reasonable that if I bind the software to one CPU, that I am still in
- >keeping with my original single CPU license.
-
- Putting on my hacker hat:
- I can create any license for any product, or get around
- any vendor's schemes to prevent me from running the software.
-
- Putting on my user's hat:
- Why do they charge me #*$)*)#$ much to run the SAME #&*(#$
- thing on my 6640 instead of the piddly amount they charge
- me to run it on my 2000??? It makes no sense!
-
- Putting on my developer's hat:
- Really if someone uses my product, I'd like to charge them
- more if it's used more. I figure on a 6640 they'll get
- more than two orders of magnitured more transactions in
- a year than they will on my VAX 11/725. However, there's
- no reasonable way to account for how many transactions
- they really will do. Plus, if the number turned out small,
- they might cancel... so...
-
- *blink*
-
- Idea! We'll charge by CPU size, regardless of how much
- they really run the product!
-
- Answer: Your particular license covers the machine you run the software
- on, NOT the possible configuration your machine COULD have if
- you (effectively) disable a CPU or two or three. Thusly, you
- buy licenses based on the hardware.
-
- Putting on my legal hat:
- I am not a lawywer, and this is not legal advice, and you should
- check everything you do very carefully before you do it, and
- sometimes after. Your mileage may vary, lower in California,
- and my employer owns his opinions, not mine.
-
- >Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer
-
-
- Ehud
-
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- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
- Sunquest Network Manager
- gavron@sunquest.com
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