HELP! "Too many users using Omniweb" message

[William Shipley]

Actually, the Lighthouse license agreement is PER MACHINE, not per user.   
Thus, if you want to run OmniWeb on more than one machine, EVER, you should  
buy multiple licenses.

Unfortunately, Lighthouse's license manager simply enforces that multiple  
people aren't running OmniWeb simultaneously, not that there is a license  
for every machine which can run OmniWeb.  This is because everyone hates  
licenses tied to machine hostids.

This is not, however, a good reason to ignore the license agreement.  I'm  
not going to try to enforce the agreement myself, but neither am I going to  
support people in their efforts to thwart it.

When you think about it, simultaneous user licenses really punish the small  
guy, because (a) the price has to be higher pre license to get the same  
return, and getting any return is tricky enough in the NEXTSTEP market, and  
(b) large sites could conceivably buy 100 copies and spread them among  
20,000 users worldwide ("Here, use my license while I sleep") but small  
sites must, in essence, buy a license per user.  Thus it's incredibly  
regressive unless we license machines.

-Wil