So I mentioned this a little to Darcy at Siggraph, well what I was doing anyway to circumvent a static license location.
Since I work in three different places, ie at home, on the road, and in an office, licensing is a major PITA for me. So what I did was buy a USB WI-FI and I have since attached most of my licenses to its MAC, this works fantastic since I just grab that and go, a poor mans Dongle I guess. So my worry is when this goes out and I am sure it will, I will have to get all my licenses setup again.
SO this leads me to an idea that I am quite fond of, it would of course take other developers to hop on the ship too of course, but would it be possible to use a actual Flexera USB Dongle ID as the MAC ID instead? So everyone licensing schemes would remain the same but people like myself could have all of their licenses tied to a single dongle ID. So the dongle would instead be linked to a specific person and/or company and not locked to a specific software.
I think something like this would benefit everyone. New license server - just move the dongle and install the license manager, on the road - bring it with you, ect.
Or at the very least offer it as an option?
Any thoughts? I am asking you guys first since you use Flex, you guys know about it, and Flex offers Dongles (at least my Vray is a Flex)
