Software Management and Distribution in Our Computers

Whenever a mountain climber is asked, on what is his or her reason in climbing a mountain, the famous answer is "because it is there." Now, in terms of software piracy, when hackers are asked on why do they hacked, then they will say "is because there is something to hack", or in other words, doing it just for the sheer pleasure of doing it or by means of curiosity.



One of the biggest software that people seen hacked is the "Windows" system. Pirating the software starts when it was just in beta stages, up to its full grown full version, and other hackers go beyond by adding some more features and programs after hacking the final version.



Windows software distribution is really a big success in terms of the word distribution. It was really distributed quite well, by distributors, as well as hackers and pirates. People cannot be blamed entirely on this kind of scenario, especially in the third world countries. In countries like these, the ratio of the individuals who likes to learn against poverty is around, 1:1. That is why people will just do about anything, just to get a hold on something precious.



In this case, that is when the people of Software License Management team will come in. They are the ones responsible in the proper licensing and distribution of software such as Windows. Software licensing can be done in a number of ways. Product activation, software metering, and automatic key server discovery are but a few from the other different ways in software licensing.

Product activation is a method by which that a software will only be fully activated or fully functional once it is activated via the internet or telephone. Software metering is done by the number of license allowed by a specific software or program, once it reaches its limit the software will seize to be installed anymore. Automatic key discovery works mainly over the internet, while the end-user surfs the internet, silently the licensed program in the computer will send vital information like the key or serial number of the software itself just to make sure that it is genuine and authenticated, once they knew that the serial number or activation key is illegal or invalid then they will block the program to function properly.



And then again, "if there’s a great will, there’s a great way." Stated by an unknown hacker and programmer.