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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Free BSD vs. BSDI Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DnD2tq.2tL@kithrup.com> References: <gregkopp-2202961608110001@p8-ts1.en.net> <4gne1c$9g0@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:27:26 GMT Lines: 25 In article <4gne1c$9g0@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >gregkopp@en.com (Greg Kopp) writes: >> I know there's not much of a difference, but when you buy BSDI with a 16 >> user license, does that mean it REALLY won't accept more than 16 users or >> is that just a license? >Better ask this in comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc, but i guess this will be >the truth. They've invested work (thus made the product actually more >expensive) just to cripple it. Doesn't it sound silly? Actually, it's not true. When you buy a BSD/OS license, you promise and cross your heart and hope to die that you will not put 40 users on a 16 user license. If BSDi finds you doing such, and they chose to, they could probably press civil charges. They are most unlikely to do that, at least right now. Given that, for the most part, they also offer complete kernel and utility sources, it would be kinda difficult for them to enforce such a restriction. And even if they were to do so, all they would do is annoy the "hacker" portion of their customer base, whom they are not really going after these days -- the reason for the price increase was because large corporate folks don't want something to be *too* much of a bargain (if it is, it must be junk).