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Re:Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps by mwcampbell on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:07PM (#23011275)
But then as soon as a paying customer exercises freedom 2 and helps their neighbors by redistributing the software on the Internet, the vendor is most likely screwed. Particularly if they developed a great piece of end-user software that doesn't need support, training, hosting, or any other service to go with it.
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Re:Show HN: Add license key verification to your apps by ddevault on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:12PM (#23011336)
Has this ever been shown to happen in practice? The vendor is the only one who can provide a guarantee that the distribution is genuine (i.e. not tampered with), provide timely updates, security notices, etc.
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