Re: gnome/gnu server proposal

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Vlad Harchev wrote:

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> > One other interesting benifit would be in the case of bonobo/oaf. When
> > you login, OAF can post its Object Directory IOR onto the server along
> > with every other logged in account. OAF can then murge all the OD's with
> > its own. What will this alow?
>
> I think that this won't be useful without extensions to bonobo that monitors
> how many instances of components are instantiated currently (and that
> disallows to use a component if the number of instances is bigger than some
> number). It's because most bonobo components that will not be available on
> each computer will be commercial ones, and most probably the licenses for them
> won't allow to run more than 1 instance of the component (or multi-user
> license would have to be acquired).

Um,

1.    One of the reasons I no longer use MS products is to escape the 
licensing BS.
2.    How long do you think it will be before there is a nice patch 
removing this functionality on Freshmeat?

-b

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