Ronggui Huang wrote:
> Yup, I second the concern. Better to de-activate Stata when the
> license is invalid. My 5 cents.
in response to
> 2009/11/9 Christopher Hajzler <[email protected]>:
> > well, the potential for a glitch to occur might be cause for concern.
> > It also makes me wonder if it wouldn't have been better to just design
> > STATA to just not work altogether when unauthorized licenses or
> > activation keys are used.
One reason for StataCorp's decision might be, that it is easier for
crackers to find a "correct" activation code if they get immidiate
feedback from Stata. Testing whether Stata runs normally is much more
time consuming.
Uli
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