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In looking at the business side of my software efforts, it's obvious that I need to trabsition from selling software to a subscription based system. To do that I need to generate a license file for each customer and ghsve thesoftware check to see if the license is valid before running.
Does anyone know of a reasonable system for doing that?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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We are using Sentinel LDK for that, not as a SaaSoftware, but as a standalone usb (and software)license dongles.
LDK support SaaS (Sentinel Cloud Licensing); if we decide to do SaaS, we should be able to do it with minimum effort.
I do not know if it is reasonable for you and your business ($$$), but it works for us.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I've toyed with Activatar[^] before. It works quite well, and is open-source.
There are various others, such as InstallKey[^].
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Tjhanks for that link, it looks like it should give me a good start. Thanks!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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No problem. Activatar is quite powerful, and is quite easy to work with. If you want multiple use product keys, it shouldn't be too hard to extend the library to support that.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Here[^]
I blame QA
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Good Grief!, The stuff I worked on was so heavily reviewed any 'funny behavior' would be have been logged and either removed or as I think here ignored...
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What a cheezy ass thing to do.. Anyone with any form in intelligence knows this came from the top.
Now they're going to have to find new programmers after their IT department jumps ship.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Apparently the VW head office got raided by the police today as the prosecutors office in Braunschweig got indications of a massive coverup happening.
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Yeah, I guess the programmers should have reported it rather than implementing it... 
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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And never get a job again. Oh wait, that's gonna happen now too 
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I watched the video and I think he is fibbing.
Someone, high up, somewhere probably said "don't ask any questions" when the test for emissions came back from the labs.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: VW Blames The Programmers!!!
What a pile of BS! The top management of any company may delegate responsibilities to underlings, but they can never escape accountability. They remain accountable for ALL actions of their underlings.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Well...I never thought management would gets it's hands dirty and code it themselves!
But it's a big company, with (I would assume) heavy duty reviews and QA procedures - if only to avoid lawsuits if there was a software glitch and someone in the USA crashed as a result.
So I can't see something like this getting through the system unless it was instigated, supported, and specified by management through the whole chain of command.
(And no, I don't want to get into a "German programmers were just obeying orders" argument!)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I wonder if VW will make the judgement that is cheaper to abandon the US market than fix the cars and pay the fines.
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A couple of problems with doing this:
- That would still not prevent class action suits by VW purchasers. If they can't get at VW directly, they might go after the assets of any company wholly owned by VW.
- The U.S. government would certainly go after the assets of any company owned by VW.
To summarize, this would involve stopping any and all U.S. activity by VW or its subsidiaries. Given today's world, I doubt that it is even possible, let alone desirable.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Just speculating.
1: a civil class action suit could not be applied overseas. Same as going bankrupt in the USA would leave your assets intact and untouchable in France.
2: I'm suggesting that they may take the view to completely abandon the US market; completely! Nothing for the govt to take.
I agree it is probably unlikely, just wondering if it had crossed their minds and how serious the train of thought might have been.
In any case, they make decent if boring vehicles and it's been mooted that they are not the only manufacturer doing this. I think there was an article (Telegraph, possibly) that stated that other manufacturers are going to get dragged into the melee.
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What nonsense.
I further suspect that this thing is going to spread a lot further and will include VW gas engines as well.
I know a few people with Volkswagons and even the fanboys complain about how difficult it is to get them serviced if there is something wrong with the computer. The fact that so many had problems with the computer is equally troubling.
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the hamsters did it!
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Well, they're technically not wrong. They're just leaving off extremely important information, but that's standard business stuff. You don't lie, you just leave off the important bits.
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"We know we can fix these vehicles to meet emissions standards," Horn said, adding that a potential fix would likely have a "slight impact on performance. One or two miles of top speed might be missing."
He think his mind reads it "we KNEW and that's why we went for this trick" :evil:. They are actually blaming software engineers for not implementing a quality AI that detects, if a secret enquiry is happening and continue act innocent for any longer- as long as it senses someone stalking 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Well... since the executive do not really do anything, they can hardly be guilty of anything, can they?! 
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So they're not only frauds, but also liars and cowards...
And they're already being hired by other companies for top functions.
We live in a messed up world 
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Are they foolhardy or just desperate? Some "rogue" programmer might have documented the assignment. Any civil servant would certainly have done so. And if the effect really was neglible, why ever take the risk?
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It stated on the news that a couple of "rogue programmers" were responsible. Does anyone seriously believe this is the truth?! Seriously. A couple of programmers managed to hack the software and no-one noticed? Not one person reviewed their code, not one person questioned why they made the changes they did, no one raised a single concern!
Bullsh*t!
We all know this directive came from the very top. Maybe they didn't explicitly mention anything about hacking the on-board software in the cars, but the directive would have been "Make the cars appear more efficient and cleaner and we will provide huge monetary incentives".
Typically the big dicks at the top of the tree are sh*tting all over those at the bottom. What complete assholes!
Sorry, but this makes me really angry  . And relax 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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