At 2:35 PM 10/31/3, Steve Maxey wrote:
> Back to the original subject on this thread:
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/flash1.html

I'm not sure... it's a long piece, so I may have missed the core, but it
seems like the writer starts out not liking that serial numbers are
authenticated against multiple reuse, and found one shop which received
alerts that it was trying to install one copy on too many machines.

Despite the length, the author didn't say who this firm was, or how many
machines they had installed that single copy on, so it's hard for me to get
a fix on whether they actually saw any problems.

There's one line towards the end of the second page that I definitely agree
with: "If Macromedia's products become increasingly difficult to use
through excessive licensing verification measures, users will simply switch
to competing products." This was one of the driving principles during
development in-house too... it's the reason we're so strongly pursuing and
actual problems with authenticating a serial number.

jd




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