From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 4 8:58: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD9D37B406 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tech_info@threespace.com) Received: from Atlanta.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010704155803.NVOL28041.femail21.sdc1.sfba.home.com@Atlanta.threespace.com> for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:58:03 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010704102824.017f8008@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:33:23 -0400 To: FreeBSD Advocacy From: Technical Information Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? In-Reply-To: <000001c10458$7f6149c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, I've heard that Borland is going to be implementing a similar scheme in its next generation of development tools and require the user to register online or by some other means in order to get a key to run the software for more than a limited period of time. Your software then essentially becomes a very expensive time-limited shareware demo until you complete that process. Just as Microsoft led the Windows application industry away from version numbers (like 3.11, 4.0, 6.2a, etc.), I suspect that their legitimizing this new form of licensing will incite a lot of other companies to follow their lead. Hopefully they won't all start telling us that we'll have to renew those licenses every few years or so either. --Chip Morton At 03:11 AM 7/4/2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >It's an eternal battle for the software publishers to convince end users >_to_ give a ratt's ass about licensing. I suspect that the >fingerprinting/serialization/activation scheme that Windows XtraProfit will >carry is going to convince quite a lot of clients to give quite a lot of >shits about software licensing in quite a bit of hurry. > >Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com >Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide >Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message