"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > Sybren Stuvel wrote: > > Mike Playle enlightened us with: > > > >>Imagine you're an IT manager for a medium-to-large company who wants > >>to use some expensive piece of software. You talk to the vendor and > >>buy a licence to use the software on up to 5 machines at once, but > >>you don't know who in the company will want to use it, so for > >>convenience you want to install it on every PC in the building. > >> > >>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 500 smart card readers - can I quote for the job? > And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by one > user at a time by building a licensing system for the smartcards? > > regards > Steve Yes - this is the point - it makes a simple implementation increasingly complex and paranoid - and is a large part of the cost that makes the software expensive - the other part is called greed... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
