And vendors using keys sometimes victimize honest customers. BTDT,GTS. For all of you vendors: it is a fact of life that most vendors have competitors and that some shops will give their money to the vendor that does not treat them like criminals. Of course, if you are willing to sign a contract with big penalty clauses for a malfunctioning key checking routine or key delivery system, that will help to reduce the competitive edge, but I won't hold my breathe.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program As the author of such software, let me confirm what others have said: each vendor does things its own way -- or perhaps not at all. CA has a central "server" program for administering licenses; the software I am responsible for has the licensing embedded in the program itself. The exact technology is proprietary and a trade secret. To say "we do X and Y and Z" would be to facilitate its defeat by a dishonest customer. [And please, let's not start the whole "to key or not to key" discussion again. Vendor keys are a fact of life. Yes, they can be a PITA. Most customers are honest -- beyond honest to the point of paranoia -- but a few are not. And honest customers sometimes make honest mistakes.] Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 3:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program Generally which assembler macro or program sets the expiration ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
