WindRiver "System Clock Has Been Set Back"

[Tristan Lall]

I find it interesting that people are inclined to take it out on your friends, rather than Wind River and Flexera.

The bug you encountered is likely a flailing attempt at prevent a user from circumventing the licence term by changing system dates. The FlexLM licence management software notices that the date has changed: "Shut. Down. Everything." You'd think that Flexera would be capable of a more nuanced response, such as the one Microsoft has been using in case of activation failures for what—15 years?

And although you got it for free, this is also commercial software that people depend on to get their work done. Doesn't it seem rather negligent to have such a simple thing force a customer to spend hours dealing with it? Wind River should have caught that in quality assurance, and leaned on Flexera to stop it from happening.

(I realize that there may be business decisions that drive them to operate this way, but that doesn't make it any less irresponsible.)

[Certified Nerd]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

I find it interesting that people are inclined to take it out on your friends, rather than Wind River and Flexera.

The bug you encountered is likely a flailing attempt at prevent a user from circumventing the licence term by changing system dates. The FlexLM licence management software notices that the date has changed: "Shut. Down. Everything." You'd think that Flexera would be capable of a more nuanced response, such as the one Microsoft has been using in case of activation failures for what—15 years?

And although you got it for free, this is also commercial software that people depend on to get their work done. Doesn't it seem rather negligent to have such a simple thing force a customer to spend hours dealing with it? Wind River should have caught that in quality assurance, and leaned on Flexera to stop it from happening.

(I realize that there may be business decisions that drive them to operate this way, but that doesn't make it any less irresponsible.)

in his first post he said he knew who did it.