> "We know you have 500 simultaneous users, so we know this package is worth $50,000 per year to you." That's like 1-2 simulator licenses per year. You really

> "We know you have 500 simultaneous users, so we know this package is worth $50,000 per year to you." That's like 1-2 simulator licenses per year. You really don't know the cost of the software generally being protected by FlexLM do you? When I was working in defense contracting, every new grad that we hired into our FPGA or ASIC groups had to be accompanied by a $100,000/yr budget just to pay for EDA tools for their jobs. For more senior employees who'd generally work more in parallel, it wouldn't be odd to see $300-500k/yr in software licenses budgeted. Because of this, we basically tried to staff as many software engineers as possible on projects as most of what we billed them at was just profit as they're incredibly cheap to employ compared to other engineering disciplines. FlexLM is annoying, but the things it's usually protecting are so expensive (and often extremely niche use) that companies actively try to find every legal way to avoid paying for it.