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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Wed Sep 1 18:20:36 1993
To: layered-athena@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 93 18:19:59 EDT
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@Athena.MIT.EDU>
> I would still like to reopen the question about whether or not Layered Athena
> should supply any commercial 3rd party software applications along with its
> other layers, or whether it should be more like we envision Athena on Mac and
> DOS platforms.
I as a buyer of such things would not expect to get all the good
stuff (i.e., commercial third-party software) as part of the basic
package. I would like to pay much less than retail to acquire a
license (i.e., not $495 for Frame but perhaps $100 or $150). I
would also really want the equivalent of an "academic lab pak" if I
had five or six machines in a group that was using common software.
That lab pak would be, say, ten licenses for the price of one and a
half. As a customer, that would be okay.
Hostname access-restrictions would be fine with me.
I believe Frame also has the ability to give some names
"more" importance than others -- i.e, the "boss" gets a license
reserved forever, or has the right to bump someone else (with a
pecking order to be determined later). This seems fine with me too.
The ones who have paid $ for the license get on the "move over
buddy" list.
Just some thoughts from the customer side....
Rob
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Rob Smyser Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
smyser@mit.edu (617) 253 3535
