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In article <BvtH51.CH2@apollo.hp.com> mob@apollo.HP.COM (Mary Bennett) writes:
>Well, if you believe that OSF is a standards company, then through the
>Distributed Management Environment (DME), a standard license management
>system will soon be available.  This is the same license management
>system that has been selected by Unix International (UI) and an ever
>growing number of large OEM's like: IBM, Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, 
>and Hewlett-Packard.  Other large companies will soon be announcing plans 
>to use this same license management system.  This technology is available
>now.

This is swell; but the PC and Mac business is a whole different jungle
of vendors selling fiercely proprietary shrink-wrapped $39.95 a copy
software packages with funny names.  Have any of them adopted this technology?

Even in the Unix world, does the OSF product address the original
question, which was a small developer who can't afford to pay big bucks
up front for code and a license to use it and distribute products using
it?

I'm not sure whether OSF is a standards company - I don't think I
know what "a standards company" means.  Standards get used in the
field because of force of law, or force of market, or because they
save designers having to invent their own.  Standards often get ignored
because it is discouragingly hard for designers to get their hands
on copies of the standard.
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