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From: planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga)
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Subject: Re: Copy protection: A marketing analysis
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 08:15:25 EDT
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>Dongles for each program lose because they only allow you to run 
>one program at a time.  

I have seen this comment any number of times, together with 
complaints about switching dongles.  Would all of you be perfectly 
happy with dongles if you could plug them all in at once (plug each 
in to the back of the previous one) and leave them plugged in?  
This is how the ADAPSO (or whatever) standard dongle works.  Also, 
it is interesting to note that Apple's desktop bus (ADB) on the Mac 
SE and Mac II (which has keyboards, mice, trackballs, etc. plugged 
into it) can also have several dongles plugged into it.

Personally, I don't buy software with any kind of copy protection.