At 12:08 AM +1000 9/16/07, Mark Andrews wrote:
> interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ licensekeys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise level stuff. not so easy to update in my experience.I've always thought that practice to be STUPID. It was stupid 15 years ago and it is still stupid today.
The fact that you as an individual thing it is stupid (in uppercase or lowercase) is irrelevant. Several large vendors disagree with you. Their customers have gotten used to dealing with this and do not consider it so onerous as to change to the other large vendors who use a different licensing scheme.
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