Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!ihnp4!wlcrjs!rlk From: rlk@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: software protection - dongles & othe Message-ID: <121@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 03:38:02 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.121 Posted: Thu Aug 8 03:38:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:32:31 EDT References: <411@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: rlk@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) Organization: chinet, Public Access UN*X, Chicago Lines: 24 In article <411@brl-tgr.ARPA> Fischer.pa@XEROX.ARPA writes: >Howzabout serializing by machine and by organization (shades of >registries). Then a software manufacturer can sell versions which look Fortune Systems uses this system (approximately). Each machine has a PAL that contains a machine ID and a group ID. Software installed on a given machine can be backed up and reinstalled as often as you wish, but will never run on another machine. When I was RIFed, the group protection implementation wasn't complete, but they intended to set up site licensing by machine groups to handle upgrades and the like for companies like FORD where there are several hundred machines. Richard Klappal UUCP: ..!ihnp4!wlcrjs!uklpl!rlk | "Money is truthful. If a man MCIMail: rklappal | speaks of his honor, make him Compuserve: 74106,1021 | pay cash." USPS: 1 S 299 Danby Street | Villa Park IL 60181 | Lazarus Long TEL: (312) 620-4988 | (aka R. Heinlein) -------------------------------------------------------------------------