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We provide our customers with some 'design' software we purchased to help
them sell our product.
The previous version was 'dongled', the new one uses software keys.
The vendor must have decided that 'software keys' was a better solution.
The dongle downsides we saw were:
1. They 'got lost'.
2. They stuck out from the back of the PC and, in effect, made the PC about
3" deeper/longer.
3. The force/weight exerted by the printer cable at 3" from the back
occasionally would cause the port to physically break.
We never saw any software issues or problems that we could attribute to the
dongle.
Tim Kredlo
Ken wrote:
I was at a customer site yesterday, and some of the applications on
the users' pc have a 'dongle' attached to
an LPT1 port, the function of which, prevents the software load if ,
it does not detect the 'dongle' switch.
How widely used is this methodology?, any down side?...
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