[rescue] StarOffice 6 Released! Oh, wait, Nevermind... (was:Solaris 9 released)

[Tim H.]

I actually didn't get that very clear, I was using per-user to contrast with per-machine, but actually the license is per-residence+1, you can put it on every machine at your home, plus one machine at work.  I too am unfond of per-user licenses, as defined by a couple of our favorite software companies.  Of course the oracle per-MHz is just as bad. :-)

Tim

http://www.gobe.com/products/productive/faq.html

On Wed, 22 May 2002 15:04:17 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:57:55PM -0400, Tim H. wrote:
> > On this topic of (not)paying for software-- There's a company called gobe,
> > used to do BeOS exclusively, but are now marketing their offic suite
> > "productive" (nice name, gobe productive) for Windows and Linux.  Not open 
> > source, but their license is beautiful.  It is a per-user license, so if
> > you buy their product you can put it on all your home machines, and they
> > even include a certificate to show the PHB for one machine at work.  And
> > the price is supposed to be ~$125, introed at ~$75.  These are the guys who
> > wrote Claris Works, which I really like.  But anyway, I wish this kind of
> > licensing would catch on in the proprietary software world.
> 
> I don't want per user license.  If it caught on, how would I ever afford
> to allow my wife and kids (assuming that I get me some of both some day)
> to use my machines?  Its bad enough having to cough up for one copy per
> machine, since I don't care to have most packages on more than one, maybe
> two machines.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
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