11/14/2022 0 Comments Siemens nx forums![]() He's saying, as an aside, wherever excel is involved its a stain on the system - either a decent system that some spreadsheet obsessed muggle has thought he'd introduce excel to, or the spreadsheet is a patch to fix parts of a shit system, or worst case the system is built on excel. He's not saying the logic bomb problem occured because excel was involved, What was made very clear from the telemetry analysis is that Siemens, if they wish, can see exactly what their software is being used for, including all the engineering designs being worked on. The company which holds the telemetry report still has it but because it is a major user of NX software and no alternative which is good enough is available, decided not to go public. When Siemens went to visit the company to have a discussion about payment of the unlicenced software, first it was made very clear to Siemens they didn't have a legal leg to stand on, and when the full report of all the telemetry being pulled was presented, the Siemens guy's face went grey.Īfter that, Siemens sent a letter to say the licence fee was being waived in this circumstance. Siemens was collecting all this information and more, including examples of designs he was working on as he was learning about the software. The only link on the young guy's PC to the place he was working was email sent from his browser, not Outlook. How did Siemens know where to send the demand when he was using it on a non work PC and didn't have a work email in Outlook on his PC? The company which recieved the demand, didn't role over, they contacted a specialist who from what I understand, analyzed all the telemetry going into and out of the binary blob. A demand for payment because an individual had downloaded and installed it on their own PC at home, without the knowledge of the place he was working. Jump forward a little, the company at which he was doing his summer job, recieves a demand from Siemens regarding the unlicensed software, they were demanding £250,000. ![]() Wanting to learn more quickly about the functionality of the S/W he did a stupid thing, he downloaded and installed a cracked version of the S/W on his personal PC at home. A mechanical design student got a summer job, he used NX as part of his new job. Then consider this situation, which happened a couple of years ago. Siemens was actually quite reasonable about it, and threw in an upgrade to the current code and a year of free tech support, which surprised the hell out of me.) NOT a fine, mind, but the same exact rate they would have paid if they had purchased the code through the proper channels. When I found out what was going on, I advised the Board of the above. $200million dollar a year engineering group. ![]() ![]() Moral of the story: Use properly licensed software, chuckletrousers. And very likely it is your own damn fault for not running the code on an airgapped machine that can't phone home, as suggested in the documentation usually included with the cracked code. It is with the so-called hacker/cracker who released the code to the warez world without actually making the code safe to run "anonymously". Most high-end code contains this kind of thing. If your licensing information doesn't stand up to scrutiny, Siemens retains information about your use of the illegally acquired code, and offers you the ability to purchase a proper license instead of being fined heavily and/or going to jail for software piracy. This can and does occur even if you downloaded a supposedly "hacked/cracked" version (so-called "warez"). When you install a copy of Siemens PLM, part of process includes the code connecting to Siemens to verify you have a license to use the code. ![]()
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