Dongles for copy protection are still quite common in certain fields where a large investment is made in the product (other than programming) such as medical specialists, etc.


>Phone home is ok if it only calls once at time of installation. After that, I'm not comfortable with it. Lots of apps install auto updaters that run on boot. Those always get disabled.
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>Copy protection schemes did go out years ago, as Mike said. IMO, any company using them today is just plain paranoid.
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>>Wrong. HASP or USB Keys or "dongle" still provide one of the strongest forms of software copy-protection. See for example
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>>http://www.aladdin.com/hasp/dongles.aspx
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>>I dont get the big deal. I list 20 top-notch features desirable by most every VFP developer and the issue is the friggin dongle which is there to stop people stealing someone's software? This is the problem? A plug in the back of my dev PC is the obstacle to adoption of a dev-tool? But phone-home software ... that's ok. Hmm, go figure.