Turning the system clock back is a kludge that may work on individual machines for a very short period of time, but it's not a viable answer to maintaining enterprise software.
If the word processing software at my firm expires due a circumstance described in this post turning back the clocks on all of our servers/workstations is simply not an acceptable solution.
The option of selling the rental key rights seems like a viable one. It provides some closing capital to the failing company for paying off their outstanding debts and the new company gains an existing customer base and a revenue stream. I can envision funding companies that crop up and do nothing other than rent out keys from failed companies. They don't have to produce any new software -- merely continue renting out they keys to the existing versions until the customer decides to switch to another vendor.
I'm already using one called "Copernic" (http://www.copernic.com) which has a free version and a pay version. I sprung for the pay version because I like it better -- it's basically a meta-search tool that searches through a large number of other search tools.
Works pretty well, is updated regularly (they add new search engines all the time) and even includes a number of different "categories" like e-mail, dictionaries, auctions, etc. that let you narrow your search.
Well worth a look, IMHO, and no...I don't work for them or own any stock in the company.
Not necessarily, but that argument would be made. The criteria is what's known as "substantial nexus" which is to say the court has to be convinced that you either have a physical presence in the state or substantial contacts in that state.
I doubt that a single, unsolicited, spam counts; but a concerted effort to do business in California might.
-Coach-
Speaking personally I'm too busy to want to fuss with such a thing and I can make more than $140 in the time I would spend configuring it and acquiring the needed parts. Accordingly I'd rather get the LinkSys NAT/Router and spend the 90 seconds worth of install/configuration necessary to get it working.
On the other hand, if you enjoy hacking around on Linux and doing projects like that, then go for it! For many people it's their hobby and they enjoy doing it. My wife likes working in the garden - we could hire a gardener to do that work, but she likes to do it, so she does. You could buy an "out of the box" solution easily enough, but if you like projects like this...go for it.
-Coach-
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If the word processing software at my firm expires due a circumstance described in this post turning back the clocks on all of our servers/workstations is simply not an acceptable solution.
The option of selling the rental key rights seems like a viable one. It provides some closing capital to the failing company for paying off their outstanding debts and the new company gains an existing customer base and a revenue stream. I can envision funding companies that crop up and do nothing other than rent out keys from failed companies. They don't have to produce any new software -- merely continue renting out they keys to the existing versions until the customer decides to switch to another vendor.
-Coach-
Works pretty well, is updated regularly (they add new search engines all the time) and even includes a number of different "categories" like e-mail, dictionaries, auctions, etc. that let you narrow your search.
Well worth a look, IMHO, and no...I don't work for them or own any stock in the company.
-Coach-
Not necessarily, but that argument would be made. The criteria is what's known as "substantial nexus" which is to say the court has to be convinced that you either have a physical presence in the state or substantial contacts in that state. I doubt that a single, unsolicited, spam counts; but a concerted effort to do business in California might. -Coach-
Speaking personally I'm too busy to want to fuss with such a thing and I can make more than $140 in the time I would spend configuring it and acquiring the needed parts. Accordingly I'd rather get the LinkSys NAT/Router and spend the 90 seconds worth of install/configuration necessary to get it working. On the other hand, if you enjoy hacking around on Linux and doing projects like that, then go for it! For many people it's their hobby and they enjoy doing it. My wife likes working in the garden - we could hire a gardener to do that work, but she likes to do it, so she does. You could buy an "out of the box" solution easily enough, but if you like projects like this...go for it. -Coach-