In article <46609804.5050509 at yahoo.co.uk>,
    Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>  writes:
  I do recall feeding keys into the OS (6.5.3) for
certain high-end video
 software many years ago though, so certainly some *apps* are crippled without
 appropriate licences (how easy it would be to circumvent that, I don't know) 
Yeah, I'm familiar with apps being license-locked.  FlexLM was a
common licensing scheme for that sort of thing.
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