Developer Wrote A Critical App And Forgot Where It Ran - Until It Stopped Running
The Register, Monday, March 17th, 2025
With the weekend behind us, it's time to once again ask the question "Who, Me?" That's the name of The Register's Monday column in which we share reader-contributed confessions of making a mess with tech.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Sam" who in the late 2000s built an application for his colleagues that he described as a "content migration toolset." The app was so good that customers started asking for it and Sam's employer decided to commercialize it.
To make that happen, Sam realized his employer would need a licensing system to check that every instance of the app had been paid for.