[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[Robert Cowham]

> > 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.

Just to be very clear, while technically there is nothing to stop people
sharing a user license, this would be against the terms of the license
agreement they have signed which is clear on this point.

I loved the story of a vendor whose product was secured by a dongle read at
start up. After a support conversation they realised that a certain customer
was using the same license multiple times. It eventually turned out that one
chap at the customer had the job of cycling round between branch offices
with said dongle every morning, getting the software running on various
machines!

Robert