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blantonl on Nov 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: EC2 Dedicated Hosts

I don't mean this to sound condescending, but you have a lot to learn about software licensing.

There are many software packages that are licensed to an individual peice of hardware. Tied to that are USB authentication dongles, and even parallel port dongles for some old school commercial software.

cortesoft on Nov 24, 2015 | [–]

Yep, you sounded condescending.

I think after 25 years in the industry I know a lot about software licensing. Enough to know that just because lots of software packages are licensed that way doesn't change the fact that they are silly.

insertnickname on Nov 24, 2015 | [–]

That sounds like a silly license scheme to me.

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