The customers for this software are companies like Cadence or Synoptics, who then use it to encourage license compliance by their customers. As a Cadence custo

The customers for this software are companies like Cadence or Synoptics, who then use it to encourage license compliance by their customers. As a Cadence customer, my employer could use strace to observe the license daemon behavior and figure out how to cheat, but we're not at all interested in doing so, both from an ethical position and as a matter of maintaining a long term relationship. We have dedicated VMs to host the license daemons, so the failure scenarios proposed are unlikely: we've experienced - and corrected - time skews, but they didn't come close to affecting the license servers. Maintaining the license servers are an accepted part of the license cost.