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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.micro
Subject: Re: software protection - dongles & other gizmos
Message-ID: <590@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:24:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.590
Posted: Wed Jul 31 13:24:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 08:16:54 EDT
References: <433@othervax.UUCP> <1775@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Xref: watmath net.micro.pc:4796 net.micro:11271
Summary: 

In article <1775@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
>  I could not do this if the program was 
>keyed to a specific dongle which was used by many other
>programs and was in use with another cpu that day (or year.)

	Actually, to my mind, there is an even worse problem with
this type of protection scheme. What if I have purchased four or five
programs from different vendors each with its own dongle(or key disk),
unless I can somehow attach or install *all* of the dongles(disks)
simultaneously on the same machine I must continually swap dongles(disks)
every time I switch programs. This is utterly unacceptible if the
programs are frequently used in rotation(such as an editor and a
compiler).
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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