02-20-2022, 01:23 PM
It used to be that you were allowed to DL SW on a home PC, using the same license as you had at work. The only provision was, they could not be used at the same time, and it had to have an internet connection to verify. The username was supposed to match in both cases. I did this for many years, with several different companies. As long as it was my license number, and my work computer was not connected, it worked fine.
The issues came when shady businesses started having one seat for multiple people. Since this was causing their resellers (middlemen) to lose money, the practice was changed. There is a way for a company like mine - having multiple seats - to use a web-based licensing system, but that requires all users to switch. And, naturally, there's a small fee associated with it. My company, being cheap, wasn't interested.
The issues came when shady businesses started having one seat for multiple people. Since this was causing their resellers (middlemen) to lose money, the practice was changed. There is a way for a company like mine - having multiple seats - to use a web-based licensing system, but that requires all users to switch. And, naturally, there's a small fee associated with it. My company, being cheap, wasn't interested.
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