Paul McNett wrote: > MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: >> My systems "log" usage. In fact, my EULA states that usage is monitored, >> and if you owe money to MBSS over 60 days old, you lose your right to >> continue using MBSS software, and the usage log information can be used to >> enforce this. I added this after that f*cker back in 2004 thought he >> could screw me over. Against advice here, I "turned out the lights" on >> his software and basically sued him and won. Well, he paid me before we >> had our court date. I consider that a win. > > My commercial app which my client distributes to their customers has licenses that > are checked every time the app starts (but the app can start for 20 days with no > successful connection before it quits altogether). My client has gotten their clients > to pay up by simply turning out the lights temporarily on their license. > > Additionally, each license has options and modules to enable/disable. So, at the > click of a button, my client can enable customer b to be able to enter new vendors, > for instance. > > And usage is also logged. Comes in handy to know who is using the software, and how > often (giving the report to my client regularly justifies my existence!)
Sounds like my apps too. I've used that in the past telling the customer (who complained about the price), "well, I can see you've been using it several times daily for the past 4 years, so I'd say you've gotten your monies worth out of it." I also like to know who's using it from a sense of what works well and what really isn't being accessed/used. The main purpose though is for bug tracking, because I want to know instantly when the software has a problem, because I like to be right on top of that and provide great support (...helps to justify a maintenance contract). Paul, do you enforce seat licenses at client sites? I'm going towards just a site license now, so they can use it on as many PCs as they'd like connecting to the same server database. Much less hassle on me for license enforcement. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
