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Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Title:TeamLinks for Windows
Notice:Kit and ECO locations: See replies to note 8.o note 8.
Moderator:ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppesAN
Created:Mon Aug 28 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2238
Total number of notes:9650

2041.0. "Spell Checker - additional databases" by VAXRIO::63230::abreu () Mon Mar 10 1997 08:35

Hi,

    I have a customer that has copies of Teamlinks Brazilian but some of his 
users send mails in french and spanish and they would like to have these two 
dictionaries to use the spell checker. I realized that I just need to copy the
dictionaries files.

    Is there any contractual problem, I mean, do they have to buy them  ?  Or 
I can send the files with no charge on them ? 

    Thanks .. Marcia
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2041.1Question sent to TL Product ManagerXANADU::mrjoe.zko.dec.com::manana::famularoMon Mar 10 1997 10:206
Hi Marcia,

I sent your question regarding along to Phil Gabree, TeamLinks Product Manager.

Joe

2041.2No "legal" solution I'm aware of.MANANA::HOVEYMon Mar 10 1997 14:0012
As far as I know, the only resolution we have for this is to have the 
customer buy teamlinks in each language they want.

The databases are not sold separatly either by digital or the vendor. 

You can't just "give" them to the customer due to the royalty. Too bad there
isn't some way to record a couple extra royalty payment be made. 

The volumes on these are so low that it just doesn't pay digitals overhead
to make a part number, an installation proceedure, a floppy for each language,
translate the instructions and installation proceedure to N languages, etc. 
etc. (we've been burned by this with other products).
2041.3is the last reply the final position ? VAXRIO::63230::abreuTue Mar 11 1997 09:039
Hi Joe,

    Is the last reply an official response or are we waiting to the position 
from Phil Gabree ? 

 
    Thks,

    Marcia
2041.4Phil's answerXANADU::mrjoe.zko.dec.com::manana::famularoTue Mar 11 1997 11:1212
Hi Marcia,

I spoke with Phil Gabree and the information that Carson entered is 
correct.

Please note, if the customer does purchase a Spanish and/or French kit it 
is licensed for single user.  The customer should not purchase one kit 
and then distribute the dictionary throughout the organization.

Regards,
Joe

2041.5The customer won't be happy :-(VAXRIO::63230::abreuWed Mar 12 1997 07:2123
Hi Joe,

   
   The only problem is the following, that will be probably the case of many 
users .. At this customer many users need portuguese, english and spanish. 
Others need portuguese, english, spanish and french. Others need portuguese, 
english, spanish and italian. And some need portuguese, english, spanish,  
french and italian.

    If they buy the french copy to the user who needs french, this user won't 
have the spanish neither the portuguese dictionary. To have a legal copy of 
all the dictionaries this user needs, they would have to buy three different 
copies of Teamlinks (spanish, portuguese and french) for the same user what 
for sure won't happen.

    If they buy the spanish copy for a user, this user won't have the 
portuguese dictionary. 

    So, this is not useful for them.

    Regs,

    	M�rcia