copy protection

[Larry Smith]

"Max M. Stalnaker" wrote:

> I work for an accounting software vendor.  I am considering a port to
> python.  With our current language, the language uses a license file that
> welds the language runtime to the machine it is running on.  It does this by
> picking up various numbers from the hardware, for instance, the NIC and the
> disk drive, encrypting the numbers so that any one number can change, and
> then providing the application environment with a unique key that the
> application can use to preserve its own copy protect, welding the
> application to the run-time which is welded to the hardware.

Do you mean to tell us you're SELLING an application
that will promptly fail to run if the machine it is
installed on has a hard drive failure or is moved to
another sub net in the same building?  My, God, man,
who'd be stupid enough to trust their BUSINESS to that?

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