Hi all.
Here Here! Well stated.
Regards.
Jim McGrath
CAD Connections, Inc.
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> He wasn't promoting illegal use of Protel. The License is for x number of
> instances of a Protel Server running concurrently. If you are running only
> Schematic than it is legal for someone else to run PCB on the same license.
> Therefore the engineer can be using Schematic while the designer is laying
> out the board on one legal license.
>
> In my opinion Protel has one of the nicest floating license architectures
> going. It automatically floats the licenses, so there is no need to install
> a license server, and it makes installation of other workstations easy
> since you can install the licenses on one machine than run setup on another
> and it will get the licenses for you. Also when a license violation is
> found it allows you to continue with nag messages so you can finish up what
> you were doing and get out without losing data. This is good licensing:
> It identifies and complains about license violations, but takes into
> account the fact that sometimes you start a server accidentally (It was
> open when you closed and therfore opens at startup) and lets you recover
> back to legality without data loss.
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