On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Don Lewis wrote:
> } The "NT client license" is just that, a license to access NT, not the =
> } application.=20
> }
> } For instance if you run only Netscape Commerce Server on an NT box and =
> } do not access the file system from any other box, you do not actually =
> } have to have any client licenses
> According to the article, Microsoft put a restriction of 10 outside
> connections in a beta version of NT Workstation 4.0, but later removed
> this restriction from the code due to user complaints, but kept the
> restriction in the license agreement. The article quotes Mike Nash,
> Microsoft's director of marketing on the subject of this restriction,
> "We don't support [Workstation] as a server. It's not designed to be
> a server, and we're concerned that customers might be using it for
> something it wasn't designed to do well."
And here's what Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates right hand man has to say in a
PC Week article:
PC Week: Are the TCP/IP connection limits found
in the NT Workstation 4.0 license really a
"wink-wink" situation, and users are free to break
the contract?
Ballmer: No, you can't. You are violating your
license. It is a serious thing for us. We did about a
billion [dollars] in server revenue. What is the
difference in price between the two, maybe $800.
One of them costs 35 percent of what the other
does. So if a billion dollars goes to 350 million
dollars, that is a big hit to this company.
Read all about it at http://www.pcweek.com/news/0812/16mball.html
and at http://www.pcweek.com/news/0812/16mweb.html
and at http://www.pcweek.com/news/0729/31eorel.html
and at http://www.pcweek.com/news/0805/07elett.html
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael @
memra .
com
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