Just imagine if you had to have a dongle for the MS Office suite, and another for Adobe Photoshop, and another for Final Cut Pro, and another for...well you get the picture. Before long, you've got a briefcase full of dongles - and no I/O ports left to connect them to, mention the potential conflicts with other hardware and software. Alot of software used to require these things back in the 80s and they were universally reviled. More trouble than they're worth. Better to save the cost of the dongle, charge $100 for the software alone, and accept some level of piracy.
--Jim Laurel
On Apr 14, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Jon Stone wrote:
Setting aside how ridiculous it is in 2005 to have a PC interface that
requires a breakout box and uses the trainer cord instead of just going to a
standard USB interface for all I/O functions,
The reason for these boxes is to prevent unpaid copying of the software. The box is actually a hardware key, not easily copied by consumers. The software will likely refuse to run without that key. All the RC simulators over $100 do the same thing.
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