the flexlm usecase is: protect revenue for vendors that sell into large companies/organizations by making drm that is sufficiently annoying to defeat and/or liv

the flexlm usecase is: protect revenue for vendors that sell into large companies/organizations by making drm that is sufficiently annoying to defeat and/or live with in a degraded state such that it's more annoying than dealing with internal bureaucracy to get accounts payable and information technology to actually pay the software vendor. saas of course just threatens to turn things off when the bill isn't paid. it's how big organizations work, nothing happens until it's annoying.