On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:36:02 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Mike Playle enlightened us with: >> Having installed it all over the shop, how can you be sure that only 5 >> people are using it at any one time? > > Write the software in such a way that it needs a certificate on a > smartcard, then supply the company with five smartcards.
And 150 smartcard readers? Of course USB dongles would work just as well and wouldn't need special readers, but really this is just a hardware implementation of the same idea - dongles are just as hated as FlexLM, and for all the same reasons :) Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
