License Management Facility (LMF)

[Doug Mohney]

In article <10142 at shlump.nac.dec.com>, kaiser at cheese.enet.dec.com writes:
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>The crucial enabling technologies are LMF and CDROMs.  CDROMs make it possible
>to ship enormous quantities of stuff cheaply, safely, and securely; and LMF
>makes it safe for the beancounters and capitalism.

This sounds like a marketing ploy. Like you can't print multiple CD-ROMs
for each product? Besides, if I want to evaluate a product, I wanna see the
docs too, not just the executables. Of course, I could be strange by wanting
to read the manual once in a while. 

>Besides my Unix systems I manage a VMS cluster -- perhaps I'm being punished for
>sins in an earlier life.  And since I'm the guy who's always handled LMF on the
>cluster and the Unix systems, it's never been any problem at all.  There was a
>complaint from someone that it was difficult; I've never found that to be true.
>(He said that the previous system manager had screwed things up before he had to
>take over.  This seems to me a broader system management/personnel issue not
>limited to LMF, so why make LMF take the rap?  My preceding system manager left
>things pretty disorganized too!)

Any other UNIX operating system (Sun OS, Berkie, AT&T, AIX) doesn't do this
LMF stuff. Do they? Nope. Only Digital. 

It shows a lack of fundmental trust at some level. 

OH well. In a couple of decades from now, Digital will dump LMF, or we'll
all be running Berkie or something, just on the principle of the thing.