Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Software Licensing

There is a funny phenomena about buying original software in Malaysia. All the AutoCAD in my company are bought original and through legitimate supplier. All of a sudden, I receive a fax asking us to fill in information of all our Autocad licenses so thet they can issue something call "License Verification Certificate" to us to show that ours are original.

Why do you have to "verify" if mine are original? Isn't the original CD good enough proof? On the other note, does it mean that if I do not have the so called "License Verification Certificate", then all our licenses are deemed "pirated"?

Compliance is one thing but making us waste all the productive time into searching for information is another. Don't the authorized dealers keep their databases of the original licenses? We have been requesting "authorization codes" from them whenever we install the software. They should have better knowledge than us.

This is a waste of time.

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