Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!colby!planting From: planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Copy protection: A marketing analysis Message-ID: <3958@spool.WISC.EDU> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 08:15:25 EDT Article-I.D.: spool.3958 Posted: Thu Jul 23 08:15:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 06:03:13 EDT References: <207@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM> <892@omepd> <1393@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <131@jc3b21.UUCP> Sender: news@spool.WISC.EDU Reply-To: planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga) Distribution: na Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 13 >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.