quote: Original post by Diragor
I''ve thought of doing it that way but how do you (they) handle the case where a customer claims that the original computer has crashed and is unrecoverable (massive hard drive failure or something)?
I imagine that they just mail out a new one. One license plus or minus isn''t so terrible. What they''re trying to quell here is 20 artists using 1 licensed copy.
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Also the floppy-license thing is not quite as convenient as, say, the USB plugs like Aladdin produces (ealaddin.com). In that case you could actually have the software installed on many different machines and quickly move the plug from one machine to another as needed. The floppy license-moving scheme sounds slightly more time-consuming. Of course, moving a USB plug is not very convenient if the back of your machine isn''t easily accessable, unless you have ports in front, an extension cable or a hub.
Well, yeah, but it''s cheaper to send out a disk than a custom piece of hardware. There was really nothing wrong with parallel port dongles either, but it''s cheaper to go software only. Besides, it''s not like any company wants to band over backwards to support license-moving... they''d much rather you just buy a second one.