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viro> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:22:50PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> 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. viro> Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds - viro> ask any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll viro> hear a _lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies viro> and breakage. FlexLM is actually a good product in general, it's when it's tied in by a vendor to a Dongle that is sucks. The real horror show in license managers is the GLBD (Global Location Broker) crap from HP/IBM. Thank god FlexLM has mostly killed them off. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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