I agree. I see it more as a convenience. Your license becomes portable and not tied to a particular machine.
Hey, I was thinking about you the other day and was about to send you an email. I greatly enjoyed "Talent is Overrated" and I would like to recommend to you
Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein. About framing choices. Fascinating stuff and very relevant for software designers as well as many others.
>>>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>>
>>And they are pretty much universally hated by users and system administrators/ support staff. They become even more hated when the port or other connection they require is no longer available on the customers' hardware (think parallel port dongles).
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>I don’t know the general feelings about USB keys in the population at large or amongst system administrators in specific. For general software aimed at end-users I agree this would not be a good solution simply because you don’t want multiple keys hanging around, being plugged in/out or chained together. That would be a hindrance. But for a developer, to enforce one copy of the development environment per developer, this is a total non-issue.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
