Is Arla free for accessing IBM AFS servers?

[Charles Karney]

Apparently IBM thinks that you cannot freely use Arla to access IBM AFS
servers.  They would like to charge you for $99 per "registered entity".

The following is from IBM's Software Announcement 299-071, March 16, 1999,
"IBM Enterprise File Systems: AFS and DFS Enhancements".

  Non-Supported Registered Entity Environment 

  This licensing option is offered for customers to use non-IBM offered AFS
  or DFS client software to allow Registered Entity access to the IBM offered
  AFS or DFS software. The registered entities may be accessing the client
  code either directly (on the same machine) or indirectly via separate
  client machine (for example, from Web-browser in a local network). Program
  Services are not provided for Non-Supported Registered Entity licenses.

  Non-Supported Access to AFS (5630-A90)

  Registered Entities
	   1 User Pack                         1001           $     99
	 100 User Pack                         1002              8,415
       1,000 User Pack                         1003             69,300
       5,000 User Pack                         1004            297,000
      10,000 User Pack                         1005            495,000
      15,000 User Pack                         1006            594,000