[p4] Multiple clients - single user

Greg Whitfield Greg.Whitfield at lightworkdesign.com
Fri Jun 15 02:47:03 PDT 2007


 

>I loved the story of a vendor whose product was secured by a dongle
read at
>start up. After a support conversation they realised that a certain
customer 
>was using the same license multiple times. It eventually turned out
that one 
>chap at the customer had the job of cycling round between branch
offices with 
>said dongle every morning, getting the software running on various
machines!

Can't have been my software then - many moons ago when I wrote the
dongle checker for a program, it kept checking at random intervals, and
would not allow things like file-save's without a dongle.

Still, a job title of "Dongle Cycler" has a certain ring to it :) 




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