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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: software protection - dongles
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 09:25:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 09:25:06 1985
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Checking for serial numbers in the machine or in the dongle can
be extremely limiting.  I believe I have a right to carry a
program home with me to use there (or I might buy a new machine
as ecsvax!dmimi pointed out) - I can carry the dongle with me,
but what if that one dongle is needed for two programs, and I'ld
like to leave one at work for other people to use.  Or at work
we may have several programs from one vendor, but we'd like to use
them on different cpus - this couldn't be done if they all needed
the same dongle or serial number.
--henry schaffer