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

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: A half-compelling case -for- the license manager.


> 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.
> 
>> 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*.
> 
>> 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.  :-)

Maybe it is impossible for anyone to write a filepro replacement or to migrate off of it, and fp can continue to just do whatever they want instead of what we want.

http://aubit4gl.sourceforge.net/tiki/tiki-custom_home.php

http://home.san.rr.com/greatguru/metafour.html

http://www.xobas.com/

...or not. Gee the motivations sure sound familiar...
I'm particularly inspired by the metafour guy. Talk about proof of concept.

Then too, this completely different approach may be interesting some day too

http://www.parrotcode.org/


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