Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On 06/08/18 13:48, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
so if it would work, replace shortname with short and short1?
With all of this hokey-pokey surrounding licensing and mac addresses, I wonder if this outfit is actually still in compliance with the terms of their license for this software, whatever it may be?
If the software licensed to run only on Machine X and Machine X has now been junked and replace by Machine Y, then isn't the solution to obtain a license for the software for Machine Y or be out-of compliance regardless of the technical ability to spoof whatever it's looking for?
Frank, I 100% agree with you. The only case with spoofed MAC address and license that may have chance to stand in court will be if all below are true:
- the company issued perpetual license.
- the company does not exist
- the original hardware died (be it motherboard whose embedded NIC
license was locked to or network card) 4. single replacement machine (meeting requirements of license; sometimes it is number of CPUs/cores, memory, etc) is used to replace it [imminently needing to spoof MAC address] 5. fair effort was made to find and notify about the above whoever inherited rights of dissolved company
But I bet the lawyer can find flaws in what I tried to say.
Both users' old workstations were at least 6 years old, maybe more. They got surplused (I'm the one who did that). So it's only on the two machines that the licenses were for. But.... I assume it was very expensive when they bought it.
On a similar note: one of the companies whose software scientists here were using a lot (IDL is a product) changed hand several times, and last owner changed licensing terms and stopped signing perpetual licenses. With perpetual license you were able to keep upgrading software during support period, usually 1 year, and keep using last version later forever only you are locked to that older version. They stopped signing perpetual licenses, and made it "software for rent" with 1 year rent term. When that happened I recommended all our people to avoid using IDL in new projects (python was my recommendation as fair replacement - just what I know, not that I consider it better than other alternatives). As a programmer (former I should say, as I don't put my dirty hands into code lately, almost not) I wouldn't invest my time into mastering something that I not necessarily will have access to at some point in a future...
Yeah. We have a number of folks here using R, and fewer still using Matlab.
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