[AccessD] WGA... was OT: It may be time to stop hatingMicrosoft.

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Aug 27 11:05:49 CDT 2009


One part is probably a machine code, given that you have to activate it
by machine.

Charlotte Foust 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:27 AM
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hatingMicrosoft.

Only curious - is there any information on what kind of stuff is encoded
in the keys that we use when we install Office or Windows?  I use a
similar scheme to protect my product - there's an expiration date
encoded in there as well as a few other bits of information.

Rocky
 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:11 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] WGA... was OT: It may be time to stop
hatingMicrosoft.

Wow, what a great idea John !

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] SPAM-LOW: Re: OT: It may be time to stop 
> hatingMicrosoft.
>
> Yea!
>
> And for my money Microsoft should open up WGA to us developers so that

> we can inspect for pirated copies of our software.  Imagine writing 
> applications where we sell licenses and WGA automatically checks for 
> the validity of licenses for our software as well as licenses for 
> Microsoft's software.
> That would be radical.



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