Shmuel, Vendors are busy in developing products, not in tracing/tracking their clients. product keys are just any other license enforcement (eg. electricity, water and any product that you pay per use. Capacity is just another way to limit q measure usage. Sound fair to me.
ITschak On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > And vendors using keys sometimes victimize honest customers. BTDT,GTS. > > For all of you vendors: it is a fact of life that most vendors have > competitors and that some shops will give their money to the vendor that > does not treat them like criminals. Of course, if you are willing to sign a > contract with big penalty clauses for a malfunctioning key checking routine > or key delivery system, that will help to reduce the competitive edge, but > I won't hold my breathe. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Charles Mills <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Product license key program > > As the author of such software, let me confirm what others have said: each > vendor does things its own way -- or perhaps not at all. CA has a central > "server" program for administering licenses; the software I am responsible > for has the licensing embedded in the program itself. > > The exact technology is proprietary and a trade secret. To say "we do X > and Y and Z" would be to facilitate its defeat by a dishonest customer. > > [And please, let's not start the whole "to key or not to key" discussion > again. Vendor keys are a fact of life. Yes, they can be a PITA. Most > customers are honest -- beyond honest to the point of paranoia -- but a few > are not. And honest customers sometimes make honest mistakes.] > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Peter > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 3:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Product license key program > > Generally which assembler macro or program sets the expiration ? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
