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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">I'm engineering a terminal
server environment where I work. We plan on making many applications
available to nearly all users on the system. However, with some of
these applications we are limited to a certain number of licenses. I
would like to float the idea within freedesktop.org that a part of the
menu system might include some sort of mechanism which would limit the
number of concurrent users of a certain piece of software.<br>
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It is arguable that this function could be limited by a launcher script
rather than the menu. Yet I see an opportunity here for an extensible
framework model.<br>
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Features I could imagine are user classes where some users could be
pre-emptable where their running copy would be stopped for someone else
to be able to use another floating license.<br>
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I hope this doesn't appear off-topic.<br>
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Good Luck!<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Joe Baker<br>
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