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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: software protection - dongles & othe
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 19:45:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 19:45:11 1985
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> 
>       Dongles are this year's solution to last year's problem.  What do I do
> with our network of SUNs?  Most of them are diskless and run off a common file
> server.

I assume that your workstations have some type of port on them? (RS-232,
paralell, or in worst case keyboard).  An ADAPSO keyring could be
connected to each station.  By each user of a package having a key,
one central copy of a program could be shared by all authorized users. 

The advantage of this over one fixed price for a network licence (the
above artivle mentioned a price = 7x single copy for a net) is that
small nets don't pay a penalty and a large network pays an appropriate
fee (presumably discounted steeply...)


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