My 2 cents worth. If you are fairly new to the MF world, you might find the concept of 'trust' a bit strange :-) At the risk of opening up a whole different discussion, having worked in the MF world for a very long time, my observations are that apart from a few 'rouge' vendors (I think most of this community know what I mean by this), majority did business on 'trust' basis. Many years ago, companies like IBM used to take a customers view. In a multi-CPC environment, if a customer stated that they used a certain product on X number of CPCs, that's what they were charged for. However some did 'break' the 'trust' and software audits told a different story. While some vendors may still be doing business on 'trust' basis others have taken steps to 'manage and audit' use of their software products by embedding checks in the product requiring 'keys' or expiry dates etc etc.
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