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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by eschneider on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:46AM (#33863875)
It would talk to your local license server, but it was definitely NOT communicating back to corporate.
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by neilv on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:34AM (#33864238)
What timeframe are you talking about?

I could be mistaken, since I no longer have the files from close to 30 years ago.

But I did think I saw a case in which it would try to email corporate about using too many seats.

It was memorable because that's the first time I saw that, and it seemed clever but invasive.

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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by eschneider on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:08PM (#33884472)
Late 90s/early 2000s. I definitely spent some time with the licensing code and I know it definitely did nothing like that then.
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by neilv on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:21PM (#33897993)
My experience must've been a little before that (I left that job in the mid-90s).

I could be mistaken. Or maybe the licensing code changed (due the Web explosion, or to evolution of a great product, or some other reason).

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