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GeneralRe: Update to the .NET language strategy Pin
obermd7-Feb-23 4:24
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NewsBusinesses are wasting millions on unused software licenses Pin
Kent Sharkey6-Feb-23 7:46
staffKent Sharkey6-Feb-23 7:46 
GeneralRe: Businesses are wasting millions on unused software licenses Pin
obermd6-Feb-23 12:00
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Dan Neely7-Feb-23 4:01
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GeneralRe: Businesses are wasting millions on unused software licenses Pin
Daniel Pfeffer7-Feb-23 6:02
professionalDaniel Pfeffer7-Feb-23 6:02 
GeneralRe: Businesses are wasting millions on unused software licenses Pin
Dan Neely7-Feb-23 6:12
Dan Neely7-Feb-23 6:12 
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Daniel Pfeffer7-Feb-23 6:57
professionalDaniel Pfeffer7-Feb-23 6:57 
I wasn't criticising you, only the implementer of that miserable excuse for a licensing server.

I did not know that the licensing server that you described predated DHCP.

I didn't take into account systems that are never connected to the company network, but any such system would need a manual solution in any case. For systems connected to the company network, a DHCP-style protocol solves licensing problems very nicely:
  • Server discovery
  • Time-limited licenses (renewable)
  • Permanent licenses
  • License reservation
  • Transferring additional configuration data with the license
  • ...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.

NewsWe now work in an open source world; here's the data Pin
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Nelek6-Feb-23 11:16
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NewsThe hundred-year programming language Pin
Kent Sharkey6-Feb-23 7:46
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obermd6-Feb-23 12:01
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Gary Wheeler7-Feb-23 2:23
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Kent Sharkey7-Feb-23 7:03
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NewsDeveloper pleads guilty to hacking his own company after pretending to investigate himself Pin
Kent Sharkey5-Feb-23 3:31
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Nelek5-Feb-23 11:37
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NewsGoogle will bring generative AI to Gmail. It's trying to stem the threat of the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance. Pin
Kent Sharkey5-Feb-23 3:31
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Nelek5-Feb-23 11:35
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NewsMicrosoft committed to Mixed Reality and HoloLens 2 Pin
Kent Sharkey5-Feb-23 3:31
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NewsThe problem with general-purpose programming languages Pin
Kent Sharkey5-Feb-23 3:31
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David O'Neil5-Feb-23 9:37
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