Simon Troup wrote: [snip]>
In such a situation some other form of backing up your right to use the program would be better. Emagic used to issue keys on floppy disc (way, way back!) and you could transfer the keys via the floppy. I wonder if there's some more up to date way of effecting the same idea? Perhaps that was what Darcy was talking about ...
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I seem to recall someone saying something about at least creating some method for a user to transfer their registration from one computer to another without having to contact Coda
Solving that is probably one of those conundrums like the public key encryption system.
Sibelius uses such a system currently -- you can transfer the printing and saving capabilities between machines using a floppy (or presumably some other medium), so the first machine's copy is crippled and the second machine's copy is enabled.
Of course, if some tragedy happens to the transfer medium, both copies of the program remain unusable without contacting the company.
One thought occurs, which might actually be a good business venture to begin: Somebody could establish a company whose sole purpose is to issue validation or authentication codes for software, all independent of the original publishers of those applications. Outsourcing authentication to a company who would be likely to remain in business because it would have so many corporate clients that the failure of any one client wouldn't force it out of business.
It wouldn't even matter whether all the clients used the same authentication process, such an entity could handle them all, including the ability to release a permanent, machine-independent unlock code for applications published by companies which go out of business.
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