From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263048AbTD1JSj (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:18:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263082AbTD1JSj (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:18:39 -0400 Received: from ausadmmsrr503.aus.amer.dell.com ([143.166.83.90]:14857 "HELO AUSADMMSRR503.aus.amer.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263048AbTD1JSi (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:18:38 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: 91331657-2068-4fb8-8b09-a4fcbc1ed29f Message-ID: <0D2092D75155D511881100B0D0D00F3902D32D4C@uppxmbl101.se.dell.com> From: Martin_List-Petersen@Dell.com To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Flame Linus to a crisp! Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:30:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 12B22B41883127-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> We've seen this before. Remember when dongles were plentiful in the >> software world? People literally had problems with having dongles on top >> of dongles to run a few programs. They all died out, simply because >> consumers _hate_ that kind of lock-in thing. > >Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds - ask >any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll hear a >_lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies and breakage. Uhh .... don't give me that. ModelSim is just one of these FlexLM horrors. The best thing is, if you have multiple licenses on one dongle (to share on the network) and the darn thing doesn't release them, when people stop using the software. Or people who simply couldn't get the stuff to work, because of some silly printerport issues (voltage issues, whatsoever). Regards, Martin List-Petersen