[Info-vax] Eisner's PAKs, was: Re: Can't get hobbyist licenses from Openvmshobbyist

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <m9m31h$asl$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> John Reagan wrote:
>> On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 9:41:59 AM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I'm going to suggest that the entire PAK system with VMS be junked.
>>> Now before anyone has a hissy fit, consider.
>>> 
>>> Any legitimate commercial user of VMS is going to "follow the
>>> rules". That's just the way it is, and if they are not, well, what
>>> has been lost?
>>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately, that isn't the truth.  We had several legitimate
>> commercial customers who wanted some license management facility to
>> track all their licenses.  They were unsure of what they had (and
>> perhaps HP was unsure as well?) and an architected solution to
>> manipulate licenses was invented.  The additional aspects of version
>> dates, release notes, etc. was all to help customers stay 'legal'.
>> The added 'benefit' of using LMF as a way to prevent piracy was a
>> secondary goal.  Later on, we realized that LMF also allowed new ways
>> to license/sell products with things like per-user licensing,
>> per-node licensing, icap, etc.
>> 
>> John (who was part of the original group who designed these things)
> 
> All I'm saying is that preventing usage is non-productive.  So use the 
> LMF to track what's installed.  Even better, include much more in the 
> base distribution.
> 
> Similar case.  Microsoft giving away free IE.  Why?  To increase market 
> share.  To get people using MS products.
> 
> Long gone are the days when you could sell OS software for big bucks. 
> Much better is recurring revenue.

You mean like Microsoft's new model for their Office Product?

bill

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