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From: rstiles@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Stiles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Draw Package Information Request
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Date: 4 Sep 88 04:00:20 GMT
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>Reason I ask is that X-CAD is DONGLE-PROTECTED (boo, hiss) and there's
>been some discussion recently of CPU-speed-dependent dongles.

You are absolutely right Thad. The company *is* aware of the problem and they
said (at least to this guy) that they will be dropping the dongle and copy
protection in general for the next release. I have been complaining to them
since day one.

I hate copy protection and double hate copy protection that is CPU speed
dependent (iiiik), but if I had to do it over again, I still would have
bought XCAD. Its an incredibly powerful program and reminds me of my college
days with Prime and Medusa.

Productivity software should not be copy protected and SHOULD NOT BE PIRATED,
which is true for all software.


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Dave Lewis says "Real CAD programs don't have dongles"

                           Copy Protected?? 

RoboCAD      2D  - $2000 -  NO
FastCAD      2D  - $2295 -  NO
CADvance     2.5D- $2795 - YES
AutoCAD      2.5D- $2850 -  NO<-- PC Magazine Editor's choice
MicroStation 3D  - $2995 - YES
VersaCAD     3D  - $2995 - YES
CADkey       3D  - $3195 - YES<-- PC Magazine Editor's choice
DataCAD      2D  - $3195 - YES
Arris        3D  - $3850 - YES
CADmax       3D  - $3950 - YES
DrawBase     3D  - $4995 - YES
Personal     3D  - $5800 - YES
  Designer 

All of the YES above *do* have dongles (little gadgets that plug into the
printer port) and are all *REAL CAD PROGRAMS*.
Dongles never stopped me from using the best software around especially
from a company that is willing to listen.
By the way, TAURUS in all their adds and the package itself does say:
"NO DONGLE OPTION".
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