Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC.

[News Administrator]

In article <3169 at rsiatl.UUCP> jgd at rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>brown at vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>a system.  I've seen too many VMS systems knocked down by DEC's
>license manager to risk my reputation and my client's money with such 
>tripe.
>
>>Sounds like I don't want 2.2 either.
>
>Yeah, me either.  I heard through the grapevine that the fecal matter
>is hitting the air handler at ISC over this.  So if anyone else on

But it's not that difficult.  I'll probably get a nasty gram from ISC for
this, but installation is really quite simple.  You install everything
properly on the first system, and make a take backup of the complete
system.  Then you make your own boot disk and steal most of the INSTALL
and INSTALL2.  Then you do the upgrade on the other boxes in your office.
Even attached over TCP/IP there is no problem with this.

	brian

BTW> Make sure you have enough licenses to cover your machines,
	just in case someone wants to make a stink about it.  The license
	says you are allowed to run the software on 1 machine, it doesn't
	specify you can't use the same serial number on all of them.