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DateMon, 28 Apr 2003 10:20:03 -0400
From"John Stoffel" <>
SubjectRe: Flame Linus to a crisp!
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
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