RE: Flame Linus to a crisp!

From: Martin_List-Petersen@Dell.com
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 04:30:10 EST


>> We've seen this before. Remember when dongles were plentiful in the
>> software world? People literally had problems with having dongles on top
>> of dongles to run a few programs. They all died out, simply because
>> consumers _hate_ that kind of lock-in thing.
>
>Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds - ask
>any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll hear a
>_lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies and breakage.
 
Uhh .... don't give me that. ModelSim is just one of these FlexLM horrors.
The best thing is, if you have multiple licenses on one dongle (to share on
the network) and the darn thing doesn't release them, when people stop using
the software.

Or people who simply couldn't get the stuff to work, because of some silly
printerport issues (voltage issues, whatsoever).

Regards,
Martin List-Petersen

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