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Last night I was looking up CNC controller boards for sale online. Many of them come with Mach3 software, with instructions to copy a special 'L1c3nse.dat' fil
by snarfy 6y ago
Last night I was looking up CNC controller boards for sale online. Many of them come with Mach3 software, with instructions to copy a special 'L1c3nse.dat' file to your C:\Mach3 folder.
Seems legit.
- jstanley 6y agoYou should look into using Grbl instead. It probably ends up cheaper and certainly gives you more control. I recently did this myself: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/6040-cnc-grbl-arduino.html https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/6040-cnc-grbl-arduino...
- snarfy 6y agoYep, I bought a Grbl board. Still, the accepted amount of piracy around Mach3 is surprising. There's a whole cottage industry based around pirating that software. Nice build btw.
- pmiller2 6y agoYeah, I bought a Mathematica 12 license from a company on eBay for $100 recently. I figured maybe they acquired it in some sort of liquidation sale, or something. $100 wouldn't be an unreasonable price in that context, since it typically sells for around $350 for a personal / hobbyist licence. Turns out they want you to download the app from some shady site that has nothing to do with Wolfram Research, then email them for a license code. Yeaaaahh, no. I know you're asking me to download some pirated shit and then just running a keygen. I could do that myself for free if I was interested. No, thanks. All I'm really wondering now is if there's anyone other than Wolfram Research and eBay that I should report this to.