[KLUG Members] Caldera seat license explained...

[Jim Pharis]

I don't believe that those proprietary products are what caused Caldera to
make a per seat license decision. Caldera has always been wishy washy on
wether or
not the GPL made any business sense. In the recent past Ransom Love's has
expierced his
confusion on this issue.  This is going to hurt Caldera

btw. Jbuilder is bundled with SuSE and SuSE has no per seat license so
that assertion doesn't hold true, that because Boreland does so does
Caldera.

This is why I give major props to Redhat and specificaly to Bob
Young. Dispite the temptation to move away from the GPL Redhat has
resisted. Redhat choose to do something and do it right. 

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> Caldera is doing seat license because of proprietary products (Borland JBuiler
> and Volution) that are now bundled with their distribution. 
> 
> http://www.101com.com/elx/article.asp?articleid=4086
> 
> Systems and Network Administrator
> Morrison Industries
> 1825 Monroe Ave NW.
> Grand Rapids, MI. 49505
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Sincerely, Jim Pharis
           


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