Identifying a certain Windows machine

[Marcio Alexandroni]

In my opinion, it depends on the kind of software. As developers, we tend to
have more than one machine, at least a notebook and a desktop where we write
software, but we never use both at the same time. In this case, tying the
software to a hardware ID is not suitable.

For production software that users work in a network, the control can be
done in the database server, where you could log connected users and deny or
warn users that they need to purchase extra licenses.

For server softwares that are complex, expensive and attend to many
concurrent connections, this kind of software suits for a monthly activation
over the internet or a dongle. This it's possible to avoid two activations
of the same license in a month.

Marcio Alexandroni
www.cialogica.com.br
 ( (11) 9989-8316
  marcioalexandroni
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> From: Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>
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> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:12:41 -0800 (PST)
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Identifying a certain Windows machine
> 
> 
> This version of the problem is interestingly different from the usual two
> ways in which it presents.  I've seen it from the perspective of a user
> wanting not to be tied to one physical machine, and also from the
> perspective of a vendor wishing to use tying to one particular machine to
> inhibit piracy.  However, the case of a user, who wants to be sure that
> no-one else can install the software he is using, by having it tied to one
> physical machine, is interestingly different.
> 
> One does wonder what exactly this software would be doing....  But no, don't
> tell us!  I really, really do not want to know!
> 
> Peter
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