[comp.dcom.lans] software licenses on a LAN

roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (03/12/89)

	SInce Sun claims that "the network is the computer", it would make
sense that you should be able to interpret a "one CPU" license and a "one
network" license to be the same thing.  Why do I suspect Sun's lawyer-types
won't agree with me?
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@phri.nyu.edu
"The connector is the network"

amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker) (03/13/89)

roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
    
    	SInce Sun claims that "the network is the computer", it would make
    sense that you should be able to interpret a "one CPU" license and a "one
    network" license to be the same thing.  Why do I suspect Sun's lawyer-types
    won't agree with me?

They'd probably say that, since it is common knowledge that "the connector
is the network," it's back to one machine again...:-).
-- 
Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@lts.UUCP / ...!uunet!lts!amanda / 703.435.8170
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Those whom the gods would destroy they first teach COBOL.