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The_Groove
Mar 15, 2003

Supersonic compressible convection in the sun

Misogynist posted:

Jesus, look at IBM's Processor Value Units if you want to complain about vendors doing incomprehensibly dumb poo poo with CPU licensing.
I know of a supercomputing center where IBM shipped them physical copies of licenses for the thousands of nodes running their filesystem. It was on a shipping pallet weighing ~800 pounds of just pure paper, cardboard, and plastic wrap. There's no activation codes or anything required to get the filesystem running either, just individually wrapped papers basically saying "Ok, you're licensed!". They're going to save it in case IBM ever audits them.

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