[WinMac] Re: Dongles
Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:10:51 -0500
Dear Bruce,
I don't disagree with you on this one... But by the same token government
entities pay their bills in 60-90 days, so if there were any bugs couldn't
you use this as a hammer to hold over the software publisher's (and
hardware mfr's) heads?
Perhaps a more important question I would ask is:
Why couldn't the spectrophotometer itself act as a dongle, not unlike the
X-Rite ColorTron II? [i.e. if the device is connected, then the software
runs.]
Cheers!
Dan
At 11:59 AM 3/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>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...
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