[duxuser] Re: regarding the lysons floppy disk
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:22:24 -0500
Wile dongles have a number of advantages, I didn't mention them for
the following reasons:
1. You always have to remember to take them with you when you need to
use another computer. If you forget! Tough! You cannot use the
program.
2. They do not work under all operating systems.
3. They will not work with all mother boards and central processor
units. For those of you who do not know what a central processor unit
(otherwise known as a CPU) is and what it does, it is a chip on the
motherboard inside the computer that controls all of a computer's
functions. It is not the whole computer, as so many people in America
are lead to believe. For those of you, who do know what a CPU is and
what it does, please! do not flood the list with responses like, "I
know what they are", etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
4. Computers are now being shipped without parallel ports. Instead,
they are being shipped with USB and wireless communications interfaces
such as Infrared, Blue Tooth, and so on, and so forth.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:39:02 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>There is one more solution to this type of problem which you did not list
>here, and that is to ship out a Dongle connector with each product
>purchased, so that the user would have to have the Dongle connected to the
>computer in order to use DBT. Joe Sullivan told me about these types of
>connectors in 1990 or 1991, and said that he might consider using them if
>it appeared that a lot of pirated copies of DBT were being utilized without
>user purchase.
>
>Since I now own the last DBT product for DOS that will ever be made, and
>since I do not need a Dongle connector to operate it, I would guess that
>pirated software didn't show up in such large numbers, as to make Dongles
>necessary. However, unless Duxbury Systems Inc., has changed its corporate
>mind concerning Dongles and their use, the possibility still exists.
>
>Daniel Vejil
>
>At 08:04 AM 3/29/04 -0500, you wrote:
>>I do not think that you will have to worry about obtaining license
>>numbers or obtaining authorization codes in order to register DBT in
>>the future. I can think of at least four solutions. There are
>>probably more.
>>
>>1. The product code or authorization key would be written on the
>>product box and you would be asked to type it into an edit field
>>during the installation.;
>>
>>2. The license number would be stored in a file on the CD, in the
>>same way as it is now stored on a floppy disk. It would be installed
>>to the hard drive along with the rest of the software;
>>
>>3. On-line registration, in the same way that a number of programs
>>are now accessing the product company's web site to obtain
>>authorization and machine codes;
>>
>>4. If you had just bought a computer and you had not yet signed up
>>with an internet provider, a temporary license or access code could be
>>written into the software so you can start using the program. The
>>code or license might allow you to use the software for 30 days to
>>give you time to contact the company to obtain a full authorization or
>>license key that would give you unlinited access.
>>
>>Sincerely:
>>
>>Dave Durber
>>
>>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:32:43 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>> >Peter said:
>> > No it's not like the Jaws authorization keys which you
>> > must install on the computer where you want to run that
>> > program. The Duxbury license disk contains a license
>> > number which must be read in to Duxbury in order for the
>> > program to run.
>> >
>> >So what happens on newer computers where no floppy disk drive is
>> >present? Certainly the case on the new lower cost machines.
>> >
>> >regards DaveP.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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