Subject: Re: Does Netatalk allow printer accounting and licence managing ?
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Sat Jun 21 1997 - 01:46:46 EDT
> From: Tony Watson <apw@octarine.cc.adfa.oz.au>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> - to be able to do per-user printer accounting,
We certainly do it, at some 10 public sites, with several printers
each, for over 10 million pages each year. We're distributing most,
but not all, pieces, as well. Some of the pieces are just too
embarrassingly ugly.
> - to be able to do licence metering (on applications),
We also do this, but we use something called Key Serve, I think.
netatalk definitely doesn't do this. In fact, it's not possible for a
file server to do it reliably, since to run an application implicitly
gives one the ability to copy it. Key Serve, and the custom software
that we used to use, works like a virus, infecting licensed software,
so it can't run out of our public site environment.
:wes
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