[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[Paquet, Philippe]

Additionally, a big thing that you would be missing with that kind of
setup is having proper names attached to the change list. Being able to
know who has done what is extremely valuable for a team.

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Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:11 AM
To: Greg Whitfield
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Subject: Re: [p4] Multiple clients - single user

Hi Guys,

Thanks very much for all your responses.

Just to be clear, my query was out of curiosity more than anything -
we have already purchased a licence for 9 users which covers our
current 4 perm staff + any temps + a bit of expansion.

At our company, we have been forced to use a product called Accurev
for the last 3 years for source control [it's truly dreadful] and the
cost of 9 user licences for perforce was worth every penny.

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.

Thanks


On 6/15/07, Greg Whitfield <Greg.Whitfield at lightworkdesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> >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!
>
> Can't have been my software then - many moons ago when I wrote the
> dongle checker for a program, it kept checking at random intervals,
and
> would not allow things like file-save's without a dongle.
>
> Still, a job title of "Dongle Cycler" has a certain ring to it :)
>
>
>
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