![]() Yes, what the student did (using cracked software) was wrong, ABSOLUTELY, no doubt.īut OP's point is that does not justify ANSYS's actions. You can't judge a company if the victim themselves are doing something illegal? Why use the illegal version in the first place? Well, that's what happens when someone uses illegal versions. Please let me know if you had a similar experience. So far, two of my academic colleagues have also come forward with a similar admission that ANSYS have been muscling them for the use of illegal licenses. We also changed the CFD and FE practicals for students. Since then we purged any ANSYS software from the department's computer system. Nevertheless, I refused to sign the confidentiality agreement. In the end, the school settled with ANSYS. My complaints that their license tracking algorithm should be reporting any infringement in the real-time to the user or the account holder instead of waiting months were rebuffed. As his computer was connected to the school VPN, his actions became the department's responsibility.ĪNSYS threatened us with a legal action unless the department pays up. The investigation led us to our graduate student, who left the school in the meantime. ![]() ![]() The ANSYS representative produced a list of such instances with IP and MAC addresses, and usernames. ![]() Apparently, someone in our department was using illegal ANSYS licenses. ANSYS licenses - CFD Online Discussion Forumsįew months ago, we had a fine example of blackmailing by ANSYS.
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