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Winter CES 1995

    21-Jan-95 01:33:34
Sb: #148175-Winter CES 1995
Fm: John N. Jordan 72772,1271
To: Scott Roberts 75604,1712
>Man, you ask for a lot. : ) I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to call them! Thanks. I'm not suprised on the site license thing.. I was wondering about that for my friends place.. they have 4 systems (3 of their own, and another borrowed) that they use when they play. It's only a couple of days a week, for only 5 hours or so a night.. not full time. They have 4 legal copies, but no site license. They are running 4 486/66' with usually 16MB each in them.. pretty good for net doom/Heretic/Descent/etc. They charge $3 per hour. I live just outside Lexington KY. about 1/4 million people, not much. I'm sure they could go 20-30 hours/week during the summertime though. Mabe 8 systems, if they could all play the same game. I'm not sure on the legality of charging someone for playing a purchased game.. it would probably say on the liscensing agreement.. Even though you bought the program, you don't get to do everything you want with it.. which kinda stinks, but that's computing. I bet a full time center would definately be told to have a site license for doom. My friend's place would probably be more in the grey, but could probably be liable- but I doube Id' give them too hard of a time, since they actually bought 4 copies.. too small a prey for the hassle. (They just now paid off their copies.) JNJ