I was not criticizing the product, just expressing surprise that dongles are still around. I honestly did not know they were.

>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.
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>>Holy moley, there's a blast from the past. I thought those things all disappeared 25 years ago.
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>>>Requires a dongle? No thanks.
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>>>>Upsides:
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>>>>It does everything VFP does x 100
>>>>Includes own native database plus connectivity to virtually any other.
>>>>Can access VFP DBF/CDX files natively.
>>>>Winforms design and data binding like VFP.
>>>>Fully GUI.
>>>>RAD project designer
>>>>GUI database and relationship designer
>>>>Full text searching.
>>>>Breaks 2Gb database barrier.
>>>>32bit and 64bit exe.
>>>>Multi-threading.
>>>>Windows/Linux server side.
>>>>Windows/Mobile/Web client side.
>>>>Ajax, Java, PHP, Silverlight plus more integration support.
>>>>Own language which any VFP programmer will understand.
>>>>Comes integrated with many tools normally required from 3rd party suppliers e.g. FTP, encryption, email, charting, etc.
>>>>State of the art interface objects.
>>>>Multi-lingual.
>>>>Extensive help.
>>>>Royalty free distribution.
>>>>And much more.
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>>>>The supplier has been in business a long time and have many big companies as clients. They are a French company with offices in various locations including US distributor.
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