A half-compelling case -for- the license manager.

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> As much as most of us hate license managers, I just learned 
> about something of which I wasn't previously aware.
> 
> It appears, if I was informed correctly, that you can have 
> the license manager serve multiple machines, and the seats 
> are issued rather like DHCP addresses are 
> leased...dynamically across machines.  So if I was told 
> correctly, you can have one machine using 6 seats and another 
> using 10, or they might be 4 and 12 or 11 and 5, etc.
> 
> Assuming that's true, that's actually a selling point for the 
> license manager that might make it a bit more attractive.
> 
> Of course, in my ideal world, there are no license managers 
> because companies actually trust their customers rather than 
> treating them like criminals in advance, and treat them with 
> a bit of dignity.  But that's a whole other discussion.
> 
> But it's at least a mitigating point if it "-has-" to be there.
> 
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Mark,

One license manager is all that is needed.  You can point to the machine
running the manager from anywhere.

Or, as I have done, set up sessions on my single user laptop which point to
my licenserver on my file server.  This allows me to open more the one
programming session on my laptop.  Or I can "steal" and additional
programming session from my office workstation.  Not really necessary as I
have a 5 user development on my server.

As for trusting clients, I had to write some code which disabled my textile
brokerage application if moved of the system it was installed on.  Had a
broker leave a company and take a copy of my program with him.  This is my
work product and I like to be paid for my programs.  

This also insured that I handled all hardware upgrades for my clients.  

In the best of all worlds we wouldn't need licensing.  But this is not the
best of all worlds.  

Richard