| Re: Windows XP problems and 400 HASP key reasons [message #28685 is a reply to message #28679] |
Sun, 06 January 2002 18:37   |
rmw092001
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Registered: January 2002
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Andrew & Jo Cool <cooladjc@chariot.net.au> wrote in message news:<3C380BD7.85D0BF00@chariot.net.au>...
> Rick Towler wrote:
>>
>> That is the question.
>>
>> We too will be inconvenienced by this change of policy, as will many
>> traveling IDL folk who have up until now enjoyed the freedom to carry their
>> dongle.
>>
>> I wish RSI would at least publish their reasoning behind this and offer an
>> alternative solution. I don't mind requesting a temporary key on occasion
>> but do they really want to issue me 50 keys good for each Saturday and
>> Sunday of the year so if I decide to work at home on a weekend I can?
>>
>> -Rick
>>
>
> One reason given to me by an RSI source was that HASP keys cost RSI
> USD$200 each.
> By disposing of HASP keys, the price of PC licences fell by USD$200.
> That's 200 good
> reasons, methinks! Actually 400 good reasons here in Australia...
>
US$200 seems good value to me, for complete freedom of movement, to
use one copy of IDL anywhere in the world. For fixed computers in a
lab, node-locked licenses were already available!!! Why remove the
backwards-compatibility with HASP though? It means RSI can refuse to
supply a softkey if I want to move an 'old' copy of IDL to another
computer ("sorry IDL 5.6 is no longer supported, you'll have to
upgrade - US$500 please, what's your credit card number?").
> And I must go on record to say that RSI is bending over backwards to
> provide
> solutions to licence issues at my place of employment since the
> withdrawal of most
> of our HASP keys in favour of licences keyed to Ethernet card addresses
> or PC HD Disk
> Serial Numbers or keyed to particular Servers.
But of course - you save AUS$400 short-term, RSI recover $$$$$$
long-term. IDL is a mature product now - no need to be nice and get
lots more users, it's time to start 'milking' for every $. With
softkey licensing, they can do this even 30 years from now, if IDL is
obsolete and unsupported - milking users with large amounts of old,
legacy IDL code. It's been normal practise for many-user unix licenses
in labs, but not for individuals working on a PC - until now.
Richard
> And it's not every day I
> hand RSI a
> freebie compliment - ask 'em ;-)
>
> Andrew Cool
> DSTO Edinburgh, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
>
> andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au
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