Editing Antifeatures (section)

==== Flexible Lies Manager (Flexlm) ====
Most serious EDA-Software from Vendors like Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Synopsys are sold per feature.
The flexlm license file controls with fine granularity which features of a full fledged installation you are allowed to use.
Fortunately, flexlm holds to hw-ids like the host-id of a solaris machine (is an nv-ram and can be changed) or mac-address of pc-computer (is in eeprom and can be changed)
So one can fight against flexible lies manager on this and other fronts, but this is mostly illegal, exept you hold a license and only want to exchange a broken machine with a new one without having to beg the ventor to kindly provide new license files. You just clone the old machine (mac-address, hw-id etc.) as seen from flexlm view...