General GAMS Update News Sales
Some of you might have noticed that coincident with releasing GAMS 30.1, we have introduced some changes to our licensing model . Below we summarize what has changed.
We have changed the way we allow users to test GAMS (“demo mode”). We now require registration on our website and generating a demo license before using the software. Some might find this process annoying, but before introducing this new scheme, we simply did have no idea how many people were using GAMS in demo mode. For a company trying to understand and serve its customer base, this was utterly unsatisfactory. With the new scheme, we collect and process some personal data, which we use to generate a named license file - after all, demo licenses are not meant to be shared between users. Four weeks later, all personal data is automatically deleted (names, email-address, IP-address, even the license file itself). We keep just enough data to compile statistics about how many demo licenses have been generated over time, and which countries and organisations these licenses are popular in.
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