[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[paul goffin]

> Suppose in our company, each person has their own PC which is not
> accessed by anyone else.  In this case, using perforce of course,
> could we use multiple client specs [one of each PC], but only a single
> user [it's a company of about 4 people] - each person then sets their
> copy of perfoce to use this one user via the P4USER variable, and uses
> their own unique client.

You could, yes.
 
> I have seen a lot of horror stories of people trying to share client
> workspaces, and the reason this is a problem all make sense to me, but
> don't really understand the implications of sharing a user between
> multiple clients.  I assume since perforce is charged on a per-user
> basis, there must be some, or everyone would buy just a single user
> licence which gives you unlimited client-specs and share the one user
> out between them.

But if they did that they would be guilty of software theft - something
that most software companies take a dim view of as it rather reflects badly
on their own business models which typically rely on getting other people
to pay for _their_ software.