On 16 May 2006, at 16:06 , Greg Raven wrote:
I fail to see how there could be any realistic mechanism that would
prevent software pirates from using BBEdit on three machines
(paying for only one license), but allow legitimate single users to
run a single license of BBEdit on three or more machines.
I can.
1) If the shot names of all the users match on the LAN -AND- if at
most two of the running copies of BBEdit are in the frontmost user,
then it doesn't complain.
So, if I have BBEdit open on my mini and on my G4, then if I open it
on the laptop, BBEdit will complain because I am the active user on
all three machines. But if my wife logs into the G4 and is using it,
then BBEdit would NOT complain because only two copies are active and
all the copies are running under the same login name (the short one).
Now, is this technically feasible? Probably. Worth the investment
of time and resources? Probably not.
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