Ric Richardson Biography

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Biography Ric Richardson was born in Sydney in 1962. Ric received an education all around the world as he travelled from Fiji, U.S.A., Canada, Japan and many other countries. He never attended university or college but rather sought out his own education. Richardson’s first job was working with his father as a stringer for the Australian ABC. Eventually Ric found himself working in the Music Publishing industry; he developed complicated music programs and software for some of Australia’s most renowned musicians such as INXS. In his spare time he wrote for several music magazines and eventually published his own. After spending some time working in the U.S. Ric eventually acquired a patent to make a music program called One-step. It was during the cycle of upgrade for the software that Ric came up with the idea to lock the program to one single computer. Ric is a born designer, still at a young age Ric began tinkering with a bike design in the mid 70’s. Ric has considered himself an inventor ever since, always looking for the next idea. It was his program locking…show more content…
Ric first acquired the patent to the Uniloc in 1992 when he formed his company of the same name. Uniloc uses technology that was unheard of and innovative for its time. The way Uniloc works, is when a program is installed into a computer it scans the environment. The environment are the current files and a series of codes such as the model make and serial number that is loaded on to that particular machine. The program continues to scan regularly if it finds that it has been loaded onto a different machine it will recognise that it has been pirated (copied illegally). The Uniloc requires a code to activate the program, this code consist of a series of numbers and letters. Without a code the program would not be able to be accessed. The authorisation/ activation key works as a proof of

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