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From: David Empson on 13 Jul 2010 23:53 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <1jlm86d.4ewvfw2j2ixyN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, > dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > > > Apple does require licence keys for its professional software (Aperture, > > Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio) and for Mac OS X Server. They do local > > network checks but I don't think they "phone home" to check for mutiple > > uses at different locations, and they don't require activation. > > > > FileMaker Pro is an interesting example. Back at least as far as version > > 4, it has a licence key which must be entered to use the software, and > > it checks on the network for other instances of the same serial number. > > Around 2007 I installed the 2004 version of MS Office from its CD onto > my MacBook and my wife's MacBook Pro, both of which were on our home > Airport network. The result was the neither of us could use any of the > three apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) on our Mac unless all three of them > were shut down on the other Mac. Yes, that would be the case for the full edition of MS Office, because it is only allowed to be installed on one computer in an office, and one home computer. The software is only allowed to be used on one computer at a time, certainly not two that are networked together. The home and student edition (or whatever it is called) has three separate licence keys, and you can install it on three computers. You must use a different licence key on each computer. > (At least, that's how I remember it -- I think the three apps were > sufficiently linked that running any one of them on one Mac blocked all > three of them on the other Mac.) > > Once they were installed and had been run once on each machine, however, > I don't recall that any license key had to be entered to run them again. I didn't mean to imply that you had to enter the FileMaker licence key each time - it is entered once when the program is installed. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Glen Labah on 14 Jul 2010 00:01 In article <michelle-A4BBF9.10440713072010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e xample.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <C8620BEA.38DBA%ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com>, > George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Would you rather they require you to enter a registration code, and > > > then have the OS "phone home" to validate the registration, or have > > > you make a telephone call if the computer is not connected to the > > > intertubes? > > > > Can we say "Adobe"? > > I was thinking "Microsoft". AutoDesk Inventor does stuff like that too. -- Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam due to e-mail address harvesters on Usenet. Response time to e-mail sent here is slow.
From: Jolly Roger on 14 Jul 2010 08:39
In article <siegman-978AD4.20052813072010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <1jlm86d.4ewvfw2j2ixyN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, > dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > > > Apple does require licence keys for its professional software (Aperture, > > Final Cut Studio, Logic Studio) and for Mac OS X Server. They do local > > network checks but I don't think they "phone home" to check for mutiple > > uses at different locations, and they don't require activation. > > > > FileMaker Pro is an interesting example. Back at least as far as version > > 4, it has a licence key which must be entered to use the software, and > > it checks on the network for other instances of the same serial number. > > > > Around 2007 I installed the 2004 version of MS Office from its CD onto > my MacBook and my wife's MacBook Pro, both of which were on our home > Airport network. The result was the neither of us could use any of the > three apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) on our Mac unless all three of them > were shut down on the other Mac. Yep, I remember that well. There were ways around it, like adding firewall rules that would prevent those applications from talking to each other over certain network ports. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |