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

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:50:09 -0500):

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:25:06PM -0500, GCC Consulting wrote:
>> [ Fairlite wrote: ]
>> > 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.
>>
>> One license manager is all that is needed.  You can point to the machine
>> running the manager from anywhere.
>
> That wasn't Mark's point.
>
> He was asking if the licenses are "floating" or "seat-locked".
>
> I believe he's right in understanding that they're floating.
>
> But: what I don't know is how they handle multiple sessions on a single
> PC.  I would *assume* you're licensing for "users", not for "sessions".
> But this being fPtech, I'd probably be wrong.

You license concurrent sessions.  (Which is why, for example, SYSTEM
no longer uses a license, as it's part of the same session.)

>> 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.
>
> Well, sure.  But that was someone who wouldn't be paying you *anyway*.

That's what the person who stole your work would argue, as well.  I
doubt that any lawyer would try the defense "it wasn't theft, because
he wasn't going to pay for it, anyway".

>> 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.
>
> I dunno.  Look at Linux.  :-)

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