On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 12:05 pm, Sandy Clark wrote: > (which means that piracy for MS products hasn't stopped. All you need is > one non-activated copy out there).
Which is then rendered inoperable by the next service pack. Which, of course, you have to apply to get support, protection from attack etc. And, as I'm sure your aware, often a company may have sufficent licenses, but install from an activation-less version to reduce time and hasale (ie expense), which then leads to all sorts of problems. > I don't really care about contribute, but what about when they use this > scheme for CFMX? Can you imagine what happens when your server hard drive > dies? I would be *very* wary about having to 'activiate' a server before I can use it. What about a hot standby - how is that handeled (do you need another license, only one server will ever be running)? What happens if the license deamon can't connect to MacroMedia - will it turn my server off (if not, why does it have to run, if it does what happens if there is a DNS failure here, or macromedia's web host goes down) ? Plus, the whole idea of writing to some weird part of the harddrive to store the license is a) pointless b) dangerous and c) hard to manage. The O/S provides a filesystem - use it. It's easy these days to use an insecure filesystem for a relativly secure (cryptographicly) signed license store. It's not like I can't drag the license store out of track 0 with dd or anything *anyway* so what does it gain you... -- Thomas C Advanced ColdFusion Programmer HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE: This Email Contains Minute Electrically Charged Particles Moving at Velocities in Excess of Five Hundred Million Miles Per Hour. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: I don't speak for the company that sent this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
