Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!

John Stoffel
2003-04-28T14:08:22Z

viro> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:22:50PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> We've seen this before. Remember when dongles were plentiful in the
>> software world? People literally had problems with having dongles on top
>> of dongles to run a few programs. They all died out, simply because
>> consumers _hate_ that kind of lock-in thing.

viro> Not all of them. And they had spawned similar software turds -
viro> ask any sysadmin who'd dealt with FlexLM and its ilk and you'll
viro> hear a _lot_ of horror stories about the induced inconveniencies
viro> and breakage.

FlexLM is actually a good product in general, it's when it's tied in
by a vendor to a Dongle that is sucks. The real horror show in
license managers is the GLBD (Global Location Broker) crap from
HP/IBM. Thank god FlexLM has mostly killed them off.

John
John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies
stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479