Re: Machine serial number
Re: Machine serial number
- Subject: Re: Machine serial number
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:10:38 -0700
On Monday, September 24, 2001, at 03:58 PM, Rob Rix wrote:
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I would not like to be a user of yours -- I prefer to be able to run
applications I've bought on *any* of my machines.
If you do fear thieves so, embed a serial# and/or client name into the
package so that it can be tracked who violated the license.
This sort of thing is done by, for instance, PiXELS, Inc. Their
product, PiXELS:3D has registration keys. I've switched hardware
several times, and they've always been glad to send me an updated
software key, no problem, no charge.
As long as it's handled well, it's not a big deal.
Good thing you're in the USA, and it's not difficult for you to contact
them.
Speaking as one who's had to maintain something like this from the
developer side, (in my misspent youth, doing tech support for a
mass-market paint program that used a damaged disk for copy protection)
I can tell you that it was a ROYAL pain in the posterior. Key problems
were easily eating up 2/3 of our tech support department's time. Most
of the time, to fix the customer's problem, we ended up shipping them an
unprotected copy.
-jcr
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.