On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:26:34 -0400, Frank J. Perricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's trivial to make hard-to-crack licensing when you have a hardware >device involved that has a unique serial number encoded into it. Some >people have tried to use that approach for software not linked to hardware; >it's called the "dongle" approach, and if you think people hate the current >scheme, you ain't seen nothing yet, if it came to the point where Forte >mailed you a little USB thing that you had to have hanging off your >computer to use Agent. No dongle-based licensure strategy has ever worked >for any mainstream software unless the software was already, by its >function, linked to a piece of hardware. I've seen a program that shouldn't need Internet access - except to check to verify that it is licenced. It works normally when you're connected, but will stop when you're not connected. In a future where everybody is expected to be connected, this "solution" may be more common. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
