Our product originally did not have "keys." We got beat up by a customer for THAT! "How the heck are we supposed to know what LPARs we can run it on if it doesn't tell us?"
Don't beat me up -- I'm just repeating what the customer said. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schuffenhauer, Mark Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program My thought is simply, license keys make it easier (but not always 100%) to protect the intellectual property that belongs to the owner. It in most cases prevents the expense of having to resort to investigation and litigation of something. I think its great Tony takes the time to properly account in his example. Some people are careless, some are less rigorous, and some people are criminal. License keys and other items that reduce simplicity in product installation and maintenance are a bit to avoid the first two items, and aimed squarely at the criminals. >From a non-legal standpoint, but from an impacted person standpoint, I >understand where owners of all intellectual/copyrighted property are coming >from. At times it's a pain below my back, but I get it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
