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One issue you hit, and it sounds like they may be hitting here, is the need to pay yearly royalties or other yearly licensing fees for some of the components
by DannyBee 5y ago
One issue you hit, and it sounds like they may be hitting here, is the need to pay yearly royalties or other yearly licensing fees for some of the components in their software.
The company that they are paying fees to is unlikely to give them a a pass.
In these cases, which are not uncommon, there is not a lot they can do.
(Lots of companies have a mix of perpetual and non-perpetual users and pay royalties on the yearly folks and a one time fixed fee for the forever folks)
- spoonjim 5y agoExactly... and software today, more than ever, is built upon products from a gazillion different vendors.
- geoduck14 5y agoOr the software, as written, NEEDS to contact a server to ask the question "am I legit" - and to remove this need would require modifying the software and redistributing it. Of course, if the companies funds run dry, they will stop renewing the url registration, and one of us can register it, throw up a server that says "you are legit!" To every request and the problem is solved.
- Someone 5y agoThat “one of us will register it” is unlikely to happen. It’s easier to run a local server that handles the url or to hack the executable to ignore the check.