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Re: Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sri Ramkrishna)
Wed Aug 18 11:37:39 1999
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From: Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?
To: gonter@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at (Gerhard Gonter)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-afs@mit.edu, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se, banz@umbc.edu
In-Reply-To: <199908180656.IAA49396@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at> from "Gerhard Gonter" at Aug 18, 99 08:56:36 am
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> This licensing scheme is (IMO) a major blow for AFS as a product.
> There are features which might be very suitable for operations such
> as ISPs, but the licensing terms renders it unusable for them.
>
> Well, time to look for alternatives ...
There is always Coda. However, it hasn't matured yet. It's good
to have some competition. Strange that with all the openness that IBM
has started that it' subsidiary hasn't adopted it.
sri
