Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "filePro list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash


> Simon--er, no...it was Barry Wiseman--said:
>> This makes no sense to me.  This worked prior to this morning's
>> crash/reboot.  What steps am I missing?  How can I troubleshoot/fix
>
> Did you do an fsck, check lost+found, etc.?

I don't understand the mystery.
The error message says version 5.6.1
Yet he said he intends to run 5.0.15.
So somehow he installed 5.6 by mistake and needs to get rid of it. Simple.

Or does 5.0.15 come with the licence manager? That would be rather 
unfriendly of fp.
In fact, even in 5.6 it is.

<veer off topic & rant...>
License managers are evil. I have progressed to that point of view. Today, 
they are just not acceptable any more, if they ever were.
I don't have nor recommend any patience or sympathy or tolerance for 
artificial obstructions and risks and problems.

Allowing someone to inflict a license manager (or other DRM) on you is about 
like paying protection money to the mob.
Really. It's that short sighted and destructive. It's too bad ones only 
choices are, realize this and sound like a nut, or just accept the way 
things are and tolerate the screwing and thus, worse, resign ones self to 
tolerating the screwing forever. Or i guess you can realize this without 
sounding like a nut by simply shopping elsewhere and not sounding like 
anything. Kind of a harsh form of feedback. I'd rather be told what my 
customers don't like than have them simply go away. Too many companies have 
the whole customer/supplier relationship all backwards.

-bkw