AVR-Chat

Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Dave VanHorn wrote:
>> CVAVR: Will I have problems if I want to install it on multiple 
>> computers?  I'm a one-man-show here, but I run five computers and a 
>> laptop. Basically the idea is that I can task-swap easier by having 
>> multiple physical benches, and of course I need to travel once in a 
>> while.
>>
>> I have no intent to use more than one "seat" as there will never be 
>> more than one person using the software, I just don't want to have to 
>> go through a bunch of hoops to move from computer to computer.
> 
> You will need a license per PC or have to export and import the license 
> as you move :( I know it sux, but Pavel is only trying to protect the 
> code he has written.
> 

It's an interesting quandary, we ran across this with a certain accounting 
system when attempting to take business data on the road on a laptop for invoicing.


The suppliers argument is essentially this:

Due to the threat of dishonest people using my software ( who will regardless of 
what measures are put in place ) I intend to make my legal customers pay for 
their licenses multiple times even though they are a single user with multiple 
systems and even though they have demonstrated lawful intent by purchasing the 
system in the first place...

Or more succinctly, as a result of being screwed by unknown non-customers I 
intend to recoup my imaginary loss by shafting my paying customers in return. I 
should add that while bemoaning the situation I don't have a universal solution 
to it either, people need a way of safeguarding their livelihood. I do know that 
a particular supplier while initially offering a backup laptop license later 
reneged so off to GCC we went.

Having your business success hinge on real-time access to other people ( had a 
development PC crash the night before a delivery is due? not yet??  ) no longer 
does it for me. Where possible I now use open source, sometimes it's a pain in 
the butt but at least I can set it up & run it without outside intervention.

We are following a similar line with our teenagers at home. Do not pirate music, 
pure & simple. But if the supplier places undue chains on their product don't 
pay them either, just completely ignore them and their product. Ultimately the 
consumer is the one with the money to start with & if the supplier ceases to 
offer an appealing product then they go broke, simple but for some reason these 
days completely forgotten.

-- 
Cheers

Don