[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[paul goffin]

> But...  Not every "company" in the world takes software theft
> seriously - and it just seemed to me that it's a strange decision to
> make the license based on per-user rather than per-client when sharing
> a user technically is possible and presents no problems from a
> functional point of view - hence my question.

The absence of "per client" licensing is a significant part of the
marketing model of Perforce.

Many of their competitors (and certainly their biggest historical
competitors) charge per seat and then extra for each additional
OS supported, additional servers, proxies and so on.  That's a
nightmare to manage (trust me!).

Perforce's model is simpler - each human being must have a license.

That simplicity means they can be defrauded, but obviously the
level of fraud is sufficiently low that Perforce can still make
a living.

And many people consider it's not the product you're paying for with
Perforce anyway (you can get something nearly as good for free) but
it's the quality of the support.

Paul.