On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Ken Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/31/18 1:48 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>
>>
>> -clip- Who spends time writing code whose only purpose is to prevent
>> software from working?
>>
>
> Hmm, let's see ... Cadence, Synopsys, Autodesk, Oracle, Mathworks, ...
>
> Sometimes they call it a License Manager.  ;)
>
> Ken
>


Yep. Which is a big reason why I select liberally licensed software
whenever possible!

Funny story, in my old DLPilot TPDD emulator I have a functional ON/OFF
switch since a real TPDD has one, and I thought it was funny.

Someone says hey it's not working... did you remember to turn it on?

Engineer humor...

-- John.

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