Subj : IBM Developer's Toolbox
To : Will Honea
From : David Noon
Date : Thu Oct 12 2000 01:49 pm
Hi Will,
Replying to a message of Will Honea to David Noon:
DN>> As Will has confirmed, it is the whole enchilada, including
DN>> HPFS386. The IBM products are shipped as a single, perpetual
DN>> licence for each subscription. Thus, I can have a single WSeB
DN>> server forever using this software.
WH> I missed that - where did you find it?
The licensing arrangements vary from product to product. The IBM products are
all perpetual licences unless they are stipulated otherwise, as near as I can
tell.
WH> Last time I bothered to read
WH> the license it was still limited to the next release or 18 months
WH> (something like that).
Those were the conditions for volume 1 of Dev Con. They changed them for IBM
products in Dev Con 2, as per my paragraph above; the rules for OEM products
were always product-specific.
Occasionally there would arrive a delivery in which an OEM product had been
deleted, and these stipulated that any existing installation of that product
should be deleted. But I have not seen that for any IBM products [not that I
installed absolutely all of them].
WH> Not that I set a timer...
The time-limited products usually have a timer in them.
WH> I thought the off-colored CD for the one with the index was a nice
WH> touch, BTW.
Beats having to be able to read the thing's label. ... :-)
Regards
Dave
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