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> Well, the Mac does have the KeyServer, by Sassafrass Software
> (keyserver@dartmouth.edu).  The users copy to their local machine a
> modified copy of the application, made available on a central file
> server.  Each time they try to launch this application, it checks with
> the keyserver to check out a key. If a key is available, the
> application launches, and the use of the application is logged.  That
> key is not available to other users until the first user quits the
> application.  If no key is available, the application will not launch. 
> The user has the option to ask the keyserver to let them know when a
> key becomes available (a notification alert).  The number of keys, of
> course, is worked out in agreement between the software vendor and the
> operator of the keyserver.  The keyserved applications will not launch
> if they cannot communicate with the keyserver, so employees have no
> incentive to take copies home.
> 
> tim.allen@dartmouth.edu  -- not connected with sassafrass, just a happy
> user of keyserved applications.

	Here, here!  Someone else who has noticed the greatness of KeyServer!

	It works almost invisibly, and those tasks which are visible are to the most
past benificial.  It records all use of the software, and I have yet to see
it damage a program in the process of keying it.  I haven't yet seen something
which was keyed which has been successfully cracked, if anyone knows more on
the simplicity of that, it would be appreciated.

KeyServers primary advantage is in systems where large, powerful servers are
available, and everyone has access to them.  Since the software is useless
without the network, and without the Key Server, the network has to be pretty
solid.

All in all, I like KeyServer a LOT.  It means that we no longer have to worry
about piracy of pretty much anything we have on the network, and the only
piracy thread it from already pirated software thrown on the public areas
of our network.

	Chris