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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1039)	2/17/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Somehow I feel that you are encouraging me to break the law. I don't have to listen to your evil suggestions... <Plugs ears and screams LALALALALALALALALA> Your actions have been reported to your superiors, agent Watson, and you will soon be demoted to only using three displays. Speaking of remote/multi displays... It raises some interesting issues about software licensing. I remember some older Windows licenses forbid displaying on more than one monitor. How can you reliably keep people from avoiding licensing costs when you have multi-user and multi-display technology? How do you define the number of 'users' on a system? Are you a 'user' on a web server if you retrieve a page from it? Are you a 'user' on a SQL server when you query it? Does your machine have 4 users because it has 4 displays? What about if the displays were in different rooms with different people sitting in front of each one? How do you control/track the number of users (however you define it) without necessarily limiting or complicating the software? Licensing is a big pain in the ass... and it will get more and more complicated in the future.