RE: Foundation Licensing question

Date : Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:11:57 -0000
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
Subject : RE: Foundation Licensing question
And your solution would be?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Joel Blackwell
> Sent: 27 December 2006 09:31
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Foundation Licensing question
> 
> When are companies going to learn that locking software to a computer
> is a waste of time?  It's a two second job these days to grab a pirated
> copy of XSI or a crack and install it on as many machines as someone
> wants.  So then, why slap shackles on the people who have actually paid
> for the program?
> 
> Have a key and help deter casual piracy- that's a great idea.  But,
> there's no need to force lockdown, as if that's going to stop anyone
> from doing what they want anyway.
> 
> "If anything, bad licensing policies are an incentive to piracy, which
> is in no one's interest."
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> 


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