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How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers with one license? [closed]

How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers from people who only own one license?

Do you think it's a good idea to have more than just a serial based scheme?

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Brian R. Bondy Avatar asked Oct 06 '08 19:10

Brian R. Bondy


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1 Answers

My general rules are

  • Huge deployments in commercial environments - Audit
  • Medium deployments of low value software < $1000 / seat - License key activation
  • Small deployments of high value software > $10,000 / seat - Dongles
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RichH Avatar answered Oct 07 '22 20:10

RichH