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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Licensing Software
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
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> I'm not even going to answer Terry's messages that seem to assume it is
> fine to wire in things like network addresses...  that is pure c***.
> Anybody who has ever had to run a LM that does any of that hokey stuff
> knows it.  You invariably run into a problem.

How can my application contact the license manager if it doesn't have a
wired network address?

Why can't my application tell my license manger "here is the address at
which I contacted you"?

I'm not talking about tying a *license* to a network address -- I've said
before, that would be stupid.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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