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I’ve been working with generic Eclipse for some time now even though I’ve paid for MyEclipse and have been using it for years (bringing it into 2 companies).
I do my work in virtual machines. I have a vm for each project — and I myeclipse disabling itself on me as it thinks I’m violating my license agreement. It’s just me, no one else, on all those virtual machines. There appears to be no easy mechanism to say “this is the machine I’m working on now”.
If Genuitec doesn’t come up with a suitable solution — then I won’t be renewing. Which is too bad, because it’s been a “nice to have” at a “reasonable price” for all these years.
Lee
I’ve been working with generic Eclipse for some time now even though I’ve paid for MyEclipse and have been using it for years (bringing it into 2 companies).
Lee, we really appreciate the long-term support. It’s users like you that really help the MyEclipse user community grow.
I do my work in virtual machines. I have a vm for each project — and I myeclipse disabling itself on me as it thinks I’m violating my license agreement. It’s just me, no one else, on all those virtual machines. There appears to be no easy mechanism to say “this is the machine I’m working on now”.
This is sort of the quintessential pirated-usage scenario. 1 VM server with 1 install of MyEclipse sharing off X number of copies to devs with only 1 license… that’s why our license manager works in this way. In your case if it’s just you, then it’s fine, you aren’t breaking any of our licensing rules, BUT, it is the *first* time we’ve ever seen a single dev work like this — historically when we were batting rampant piracy in the early days, these sorts of setups were exactly how people were pirating MyEclipse the most egregiously.
If Genuitec doesn’t come up with a suitable solution — then I won’t be renewing. Which is too bad, because it’s been a “nice to have” at a “reasonable price” for all these years.
You know you could just email use with your situation and we would happily adjust your license for you, we don’t require deposits of blood or anything 😉
I’ll email the subscriptions department with your situation and see if we can get this taken care of shortly.
Lee, the subscriptions department has emailed you a new subscription. You can email subscriptions@genuitec.com if you run into any hickups.
I appreciate the response. I have brought this issue here a few times before this.
I can appreciate that not many developers work the way I do _now_ — but I do think more will as quad core computers with plenty of ram becomes the norm (and it will).
I even moved off of windows to linux for my development for the same reason.
What would be nice — is a way to say “this is me now” — so that my license can be moved easily. I have no problem with not being able to run myeclipse on two “machines” simultaneously.
I do agree the VM’s are a tool that can be used to facilitate piracy. All one need do is fire up a new vm and install an app and you get to run it for the trial period. Then fire up a fresh vm and do it all again. I could do that with myeclipse now, but I don’t want to pirate it, I want to support it with my money as I’ve been doing for a long time.
I’m sure I’m currently in enough of a minority as to not warrant too much fretting if I moved on. I do think, though, that Genuitec should plan on this becoming an increasing issue and come up with a “piracy fighting” solution that doesn’t block legitimate customers.
Lee
