Re: Counting users - rip-off

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The vendor in question (the potential rip-off) has finally admitted that
the counting of OS/400 users not enrolled in their software will not
count against their licensed user count.  They were not particularly
happy about losing this 'potential revenue' but had to admit it was
unreasonable to expect payment for them.

 - Larry

John Earl wrote:
> 
> > The norm is purchasing licenses  for users that use the software,
> not all
> > possible users on the system. Think of group profiles which cannot
> even
> > signon. Should you pay for a license for that "user"?
> 
> Or IBM profiles that must be on the system.  Or profiles that the
> Vendor software in question creates (they charge by profile and then
> create additional profiles?   Pretty neat trick!).
> 
> I'm all for reducing the number of unneeded profiles on a system, but
> this seems a bit heavy handed on the vendor's part.
> 
> jte
> 
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