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- From: geoff@tyger.Eng.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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- Subject: Re: ?floating license server al la FrameMaker
- Date: 7 Sep 1992 14:32:10 GMT
- Organization: SunSelect
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- At least one of our large customers is using SaberMeter from Saber
- Software.
-
- Another technique which I've seen - which addresses your concerns
- about people taking software home - is the use of a "bug" in
- the application which will abort with a DOS error (typically a
- divide overflow or similar) unless the application is started
- using a "wrapper" which manages the licensing. (Obviously you
- can prevent people from copying an application executable by marking
- it as execute-only, but this won't work with applications which
- require read access to the .EXE to, e.g., load overlays.)
-
- --
- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Select. (geoff.arnold@East.Sun.COM)
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