[Techtalk] Urgent Help needed (long post)

[Kai MacTane]

Figaro wrote:
> 
> The reason one cannot afford to lose this sys. is that there are very
> expen. (for me) prop. CAD/SIM softwares that are daily needed. While
> this is a (my) stand-alone workstation the lic. files from Anysys, the
> Cosmos, etc.. do not allow transfer to a different or new installation.
> At least not without many thousands of **** (pick your favorite currency).

Yuck! That sounds nasty.

Do you know if the licenses are tied to IP address, or to some aspect of 
the hardware, or what?

It seems bizarre that they'd sell software that makes it so you can't 
ever reinstall your OS, considering how often Windows users need to do that.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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