maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) (06/09/89)
I recently received my Ultrix 3.0 educational source kit. Amongst the tapes was a 65+ user capacity upgrade tape. The cover letter states "This software lets you increase the maximum number of users on your ULTRIX system". My local sales office is unable to tell me what I am legally permitted to do with this tape. Since the source is not for a specific machine, my guess is that I may use the upgrade kit on any machine covered by the source licencing agreement. This makes sense, because the first source change I might otherwise make could be to remove the code which checks the number of users. But is it actually true? I'm actually asking in connection with the VAX, but am interested the answer for the PMAX as well. In particular, I have just heard evidence that Digital has lost PMAX sales to an educational site because "they won't licence it for more than one user" (I think they meant two users, but the point stands). Is it the case that getting themselves a source licence would solve that problem? Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Computer Lab
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (06/10/89)
The capacity upgrades are tied to how we pay AT&T royalties. Since you have a source license and have paid AT&T money for same, you can run as many users as you want. Fred