[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 16, Issue 44

[Rudy Avila]

On a side note, the vmware license will hopefully not follow the same path 
as the everychanging online user agreement for wells fargo online banking.
That damned agreement has gone through sooooo many revisions making it
less inviting to participate in online transactions with wells fargo.

Oops, forgot to introduce myself.
I am Rudy Avila, formerly known as "UNIX Systems Administrator/jack of all
trades" for the Northlake College Unix Certification program and partial
maintainer of the CRISP and phred.dcccd.edu sites.

visit http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu
and
      http://phred.dcccd.edu

Although I have been on this list for more almost a year, my studies
at UTD have enveloped my time substantially.

regards,
Rudy Avila
sysadmin?,unix only of course .

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>    1. Re: VMware rebate - must register at VMware (Greg Edwards)
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> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:01:02 -0500
> From: Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>
> To: severian at pobox.com, NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] VMware rebate - must register at VMware
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> Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >   How does there product licensing work?  If I have two machines, say a
> > laptop and a desktop running VMware, do I need 2 copies or just one?
> >   How often do they come out with these releases that you need to pay
> > for.  Once a year or once every two years.  If it is every two years or
> > so, that seems reasonable to me.
> > Good day,
> > Ralph
> > 
> 
> I've been using VMware since before v1.0 and I've only needed to 
> purchase upgrades twice, IIRC.  Upgrades are not the usual annual or 
> semi-annual most companys try to force you to do.  In the past when 
> they've done an upgrade it comes with significant improvements in the 
> performance of the product.
> 
> Now that being said, they are under new management so that could change. 
>   I hope the new ownership isn't going to change the quality of the 
> product or the user retention approach from the past.
> 
> License agreement says 1 license per installation.  It's not clear if 
> that means 1 per user or 1 per machine.  To get multiple users on a 
> single machine you need to give group write access to the vmware 
> installed directory.  Caveat, I have not reread the agreement in several 
> years.
> 
> -- 
> Greg Edwards
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> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:42:13 -0500
> From: "Cameron, Thomas" <Thomas.Cameron at bankofamerica.com>
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> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:15 PM
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> > Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] VMware rebate - must register at VMware
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> > 
> > According to the terms and conditions
> > https://www.vmware.com/pdf/lug_terms_conditions.pdf
> > 
> 
> 
> So just to make sure I've got this right - we buy a copy online, get the serial number, register it, and then go back to vmware.com to request the rebate, right?  Do you know what the URL is to ask for the rebate?  Also, is it an instant rebate, or is it one of those "you'll get a check in 6-8 weeks" things that turns into 4-6 months?
> 
> Thomas
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> Date: 22 Apr 2004 16:42:18 -0500
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> > So just to make sure I've got this right - we buy a copy online, get
> the serial number, register it, and then go back to vmware.com to
> request the rebate, right?  Do you know what the URL is to ask for the
> rebate?  Also, is it an instant rebate, or is it one of those "you'll
> get a check in 6-8 weeks" things that turns into 4-6 months?
> 
> In the PDF that Chris sent out, it reads, that the first 1000 LUG
> members (of all of the LUGs listed on linux.org) that buy the product
> can register the product and recieve the $100 rebate.  The rebate will
> be sent in 8-12 weeks.  But you buy the product before you know if you
> will get the rebate.  This means that if I go online and buy the product
> right now, its possible (and I won't find out until its too late) that I
> won't get the rebate because 1000 people have already registered.  So
> there is no way to know that you get the rebate until after you buy it
> at regular price.
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong...and I would like to think that I am.
> -- 
> Woody
> 
> In a world without boundaries why
> do we need Gates and Windows?
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> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:48:48 -0500
> From: "Rev. wRy" <slot0k at pogox.org>
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> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 16:42, NTLUG wrote:
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> > 
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong...and I would like to think that I am.
> 
> Nah, yer dead on woody.
> 
> R
> -- 
> About 50% of them are mediocre at best, and another 45% of them should
> have as many of their products forcefully shoved up their asses as is
> physically and mathematically possible, then flayed alive, the wreckage
> of their bodies hanged over the sea, the corpses drawn and quartered,
> the pieces burned, and their ashes mixed into a concrete brick which
> shall be sealed in a leaden box and hurled into the deepest trench of
> the ocean. 
> - John S. Novak, on dealing with sub-contractors.
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> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:34:56 -0500
> From: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
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> NTLUG wrote:
> >>So just to make sure I've got this right - we buy a copy online, get
> > 
> >   So
> > there is no way to know that you get the rebate until after you buy it
> > at regular price.
> > 
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong...and I would like to think that I am.
> 
> This is true.
> 
> It's called risk.  Still a good product at $189 though.
> (shoot it's worth every penny of the original $300 IMHO)
> 
> However... I know some msy not be able to afford it.
> 
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