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dysamoria wrote:iLok? NO, please.
lorcan wrote:dysamoria wrote:iLok? NO, please.
Why not ? It's really very convenient, you can use your software anywhere, a great proportion of commercial plugins use it, and it's quite cheap (35€). If the company goes out of business, you can still use your software, and you can insure the key for a fee if you're afraid of losing it. Seems like the pros outweigh the cons ...
dysamoria wrote:lorcan wrote:dysamoria wrote:iLok? NO, please.
Why not ? It's really very convenient, you can use your software anywhere, a great proportion of commercial plugins use it, and it's quite cheap (35€). If the company goes out of business, you can still use your software, and you can insure the key for a fee if you're afraid of losing it. Seems like the pros outweigh the cons ...
1. Limited USB ports on laptop (2 on this one).
2. Nothing USB is ever officially supported through hubs. All product makers expect you to use direct connections.
3. Dongles can be lost easily, be stolen, break and just plain become corrupted. "Careful" isn't relevant to reality.
4. Dongles require drivers and associated management software. (complexity is the direct opponent of reliability, and i've seen plenty problems) This stuff also adds startup time to the software and OS.
5. Company going out of business doesn't save you when the dongle dies or gets lost, etc.
6. My money goes to the product i wish to use, not the associated politics of copy-protection engineering, support and replacement.
7. OS upgrades (not just the product you bought but the security stuff, usually third party components, have to be updated too).
8. Ethics: Why is it my responsibility to deal with copy-protection tools when i paid for the product? i'm not the enemy.
Do you have lots of pro products? How many dongles are we expected to have? Three? Six? How do you juggle their connections? Travel with them? Do you know how many different license management tools you have installed on your computer and what memory and CPU usage they're consuming? Some systems conflict with each other, too, though i have no personal experience with this, so it's hearsay.
i feel there's more to say, but... well... there you go.
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