Very Computer

Hi all!.

I saw SCO OpenServer is being offered for "free" for developers, students
and general public for non-profit purposes. I was thinking to get it and
create a kind of BBS service with it to help the student community to find
answers to technical questions and to get to know SCO unix as well. My
question is the following: How many users can be dialing in to the "free"
SCO OpenServer?. How many users can be logged in at once?. Part of the
announce says you can use the free copy for BBS's purposes, but if you
have only one user license, how come are you going to have more than one
user connected to the SCO BBS?.

Any help highly appreciated.

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David Collantes propounded certain bytes, to wit:
| I saw SCO OpenServer is being offered for "free" for developers, students
| and general public for non-profit purposes. I was thinking to get it and
| create a kind of BBS service with it to help the student community to find
| answers to technical questions and to get to know SCO unix as well. My
| question is the following: How many users can be dialing in to the "free"
| SCO OpenServer?. How many users can be logged in at once?. Part of the
| announce says you can use the free copy for BBS's purposes, but if you
| have only one user license, how come are you going to have more than one
| user connected to the SCO BBS?.

If you're logged in at the console, one more person can come over a
serial port.  It's a limited licence. BBS users would have to stand in
line.

But why would you want to do this, when we already have this newsgroup and
CompuServe's SCOFORUM for folks to peruse?

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$I saw SCO OpenServer is being offered for "free" for developers, students
$and general public for non-profit purposes. I was thinking to get it and
$create a kind of BBS service with it to help the student community to find
$answers to technical questions and to get to know SCO unix as well. My
$question is the following: How many users can be dialing in to the "free"
$SCO OpenServer?. How many users can be logged in at once?.

   It's a two-user license.

$                                                           Part of the
$announce says you can use the free copy for BBS's purposes, but if you
$have only one user license, how come are you going to have more than one
$user connected to the SCO BBS?.

   Have you never used a BBS with only one or two phone lines?  It
may not do much in the way of real-time chat, but you can still
make it a useful system with mail, newsgroups, upload/download
areas, etc.

   Also, you might want to consider how the users will be using it,
because not all forms of access count against your license.  For
example, run a Web server on it, and that doesn't count - so now your
two-user system can serve more users than you thought, provided
that they're interested in accessing it via a Web browser.
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