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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: how to put indelible serial# in resource fork of app?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.165019.9730@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 04:50:19 GMT
- References: <Jul.20.17.18.21.1992.16265@gandalf.rutgers.edu> <62725@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <62725@cup.portal.com>, MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:
- > I regularly put tools on a server where I can access them remotely as I
- > wander around the office carrying a floppy with an alias to the server. If I
- > encountered software that told me that it would not launch from a server,
- > even if I was the only launcher of said app and therefore well within my
- > rights as a single-user licensee, I would take a dim view of this indeed.
-
- Here's another evil twist: a program that requires a serial number the
- first time you run it after installation. Then, if you move it to a different
- volume (like on a server), it asks for the serial number again!
-
- I'm talking about Mathematica 2.0. I suspect it does something like store
- a file or directory ID number in its prefs file. If this doesn't match, it
- knows it's running a different copy.
-
- > I will make sure we know to test this the next time we review certain kinds
- > of software. I can think of a number of instances where I'd want single-user
- > server access to some of the DTP tools we use around here. Not farfetched at
- > all.
-
- You might like to add Mathematica's copy protection to your list of things
- to check.
-
- "How do I piss the user off? Let me count the ways..."
-