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Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry
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"Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net> writes:

> On Sat, 05 May 2007 08:41:53 -0400, Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If I were spending money and micromanaging a development contractor,
>> I'd  be a lot more interested in making sure they pick a tool suite
>> that will  not fail 100% when the license server dies. Compiler bugs
>> that pop up  after 5 years of service almost certainly can be worked
>> around...Node  locked license servers..maybe not.
>
>
> I've always felt there must be an especially warm corner in hell
> reserved  for the inventor(s) of flexlm.

But, excuse me, the flexlm user are only protecting their rights and
the flexlm developers are only serving a market. And it's a ethically
rather less contested market than the defense industry, which has a
good press here :-|.

It's not that you don't know beforehand when you're buying software
which is being "managed" with flexlm. 

Regards -- Markus