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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI license policy
Date: 3 Mar 95 06:01:37 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <3j5f2h$b82@server1.ctc.com> sheng@CTC.COM (Chen Sheng) writes:

>I called BSDI asking for the price info for BSDI and was told $540 for four 
>user licenses.  So it means I can run BSDI on four machines, each machine can
>have unlimited users,  or it means I can run on one machine with only four 
>simultaneous users.

 Typically Unix systems are licensed by number of users, as it number of
users allowed to login to a single machine.


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