Re: [WinMac] Dongles

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:59:53 -0700

Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:

> [In some ways, though, I don't blame Quark - Or any software publisher -
> for protecting their intellectual property with a dongle, AS LONG AS there
> is 24/365 support in the event that there is a hardware failure... But that
> is a whole separate issue!]

Then you've never run into companies thet made products like the ones
that a lab in our college used. They had a dongle (an endlessly buggy
one at that) that protected their oh-so-precious software.

Of course said software was _useless_ without the attached $35,000
spectrophotometer that it ran, but still they had to protect it with a
cheap, buggy $15 dongle...

Never DID figure that one out...

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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