2010/5/11 Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de>: > is using a USB dongle that is loadable with licensees for multiple > products by multiple vendors. (AFAIK, the hardware available is by
...and often way to expensive or simply not feasible. Our software product runs on 20,000+ systems. Many of them are public schools. We are constantly trying to reduce the cost of running our systems (hence the push towards Linux), so introducing a hardware device for licensing with just push up the price again (or could be stolen in schools). :-/ Software-only licensing system is cheaper, more flexible and cannot be stolen - but has its negative side too (like maybe not being as secure as a hardware device). -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus