why hide the binaries

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:31 PM
> To: Kenneth Brody
> Cc: alpha at fptech.com
> Subject: Re: why hide the binaries
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:59:27PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > Quoting Joe Chasan (Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:38:54 -0400):
> >
> > > now that one needs valid license file to get fp to run, why hide the
> > > 5.6 binaries behind the browser login scripts?
> > >
> > > i am at a customer now with 5.6.2 and license server failures.  i want
> > > to put in 5.6.3 but have no PC's here to login to website, but i can,
> > > through a series of ssh hops, get to a box with outgoing ftp
> to pick it
> > > up if that were possible - and it then occured to me - why are the
> > > binaries still cloaked if they are useless without proper licensing
> > > anyway - can't we just have them somewhere accssible via ftp or sftp?
> >
> > A valid point.  I have several licensed programs that allow you to get
> > the latest versions via anonymous ftp, since you can't use them without
> > a license anyway.  (Well, actually, some of them require that you go to
> > a web site and enter your registration information first, but then they
> > simply take you to a web page with an anon-ftp URL to download it.  I
> > just bookmark the URL for future reference.)
> >
> > The only thing I see that fPTech "loses" is the tracking of who has
> > downloaded the latest versions.
> >
> > I'm not sure what should be included.  Should it be a full install
> > image?  An ISO image?  Individual executables?
>
> full install & ISO
> if someone is technical enough to know they they need individual
> executable
> and knows how to install it (e.g. where to put, set perms, etc), they can
> probably pick it out of the install image themselves.
>
> -joe
>
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I agree... it would be kind of odd to just need dclerk or dclerk.exe or
dxmaint or dxmaint.exe without needing all the rest.

As to losing who downloaded what... that is a concern. But, how does that
really help you out now? Do you ever use this info for anything??

John