On 7/29/17 8:47 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Phil Davis via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>
wrote:
You could distribute your product on flash drives and require that
they be plugged in during use. Each flash drive (thumb drive,
w
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Phil Davis via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> You could distribute your product on flash drives and require that they be
> plugged in during use. Each flash drive (thumb drive, whatever) has a
> unique ID in its firmware that the OS (and t
On 2017-07-29 09:53, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I would suppose I need that software to "phone home" and check itself
against a list (text document)
or something so that only 5 copies can function "out there", and if a
6th version phones home it
will do a "Peter Graves" and self-d
Or...
This is reaching back into the annals of computing history, but it works.
You could distribute your product on flash drives and require that they
be plugged in during use. Each flash drive (thumb drive, whatever) has a
unique ID in its firmware that the OS (and therefore LC) can access.
Let us suppose I have sold a 5 seat licence of some software to an
organisation and I don't
want its workers merrily taking copies of that software home to pop on
their home machines
as well as giving copies to Aunty Betty, Uncle Oswald and Cousin Jeff . . .
I would suppose I need that software
