Thanks for clarifying that Ron. I would have expected the Mach3/4 group to go ballistic with a "phone home" scheme. I thought they might have gone soft. ;-)
>>In the commercial world users are not scared off by licenses, they are running a business and understand it costs to get the kind of commercial grade product they want. I don't know of an engineer who does not abhor licensing schemes that require handshakes with servers and secret codes to activate software. At some point those schemes will shut things down. Its only a matter of time. >>Mach4 is already in wide use by many OEMs. The hobby side is not the focus. Good. What OEMs are using Mach4? Dave On 9/18/2015 5:38 PM, Ron Ginger wrote: > Mach4 does not in any way 'phone home'. Although the code is different > it works exactly as mach3- you get a license file mailed to you and you > install it once and it lasts forever. > > There was a recent change made to the license code which required a new > license, so guys using the first version of Mach4 had to use the web > site to get a new license. The hobby version allows you to self-issue up > to 5 licenses in a year. Each license is tied to a PC by some code that > looks at many things, including a MAC address of an ethernet card. > > The license is a small pain, but once loaded you are done with it. If > the world was more honest a license would not be necessary. > > In the commercial world users are not scared off by licenses, they are > running a business and understand it costs to get the kind of commercial > grade product they want. Mach4 is already in wide use by many OEMs. The > hobby side is not the focus. > > I am not trying to push Mach on this list, I simply want the facts to be > clear and to try to kill off rumors. > > ron ginger > > > On 9/18/2015 3:39 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:22:27 -0400 >> From: Dave Cole<linuxcncro...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] CAD/CAM for LinuxCNC >> To:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Message-ID:<55fc5663.2000...@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed >> >> On 9/18/2015 1:02 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: >>>> What will really happen ultimately is LinuxCNC will become the dominant CNC >>>> program out there for people who don't want a call home virus running on >>>> their PC. >> I didn't know that it actually "phoned home". That would be a problem >> for me. >> The licensing model is rather convoluted. Although I can understand >> them trying to protect their software sales, I suspect that it also scares >> away a number of potential users. >> >> >> Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
