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sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:

>I am probably a lone fish in a big nasty sea, but I am satisfied with the copy  
>protection like the one used in Mathematica.  I can already feel the heat, but  
>I like the ability to limit software to specific machines (not to a specific  

Did you set it up?  Sure, it's fine once it's running but to set up
50 of them is quite a bit of work.
>of limiting software much more than "There are already 4 copies of this  
>software running...." type messages...
But with mathematica's floating license server, which supposedly
works now, you should have one copy for each machine anyhow, so you
should never have anyone see such a message, plus you don't have to
run mathinfo on each machine.  I think that license servers which
are tied down to one machine are reasonable.

>Wolfram has done a great job in dealing with us and they usually have our  
>passwords within 24 hours of requesting them (often the same day!).

Ugh...have you ever tried to fax them a list of licenses?  They
frequently 'lose' 10 page faxes.  (Happened to me twice).

>I do have complaints that you cannot install the software until you have a  
>least one of the passwords, but once one copy is licensed, it is trivial to  
>add as many more as you purchase...

It could be easier, though, with a floating license server...no
reason to make it harder than really necessary.

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