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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160243.21369@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:02:43 GMT
- References: <28130@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.112704.8970@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> <1e887pINNfpe@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- In article <1e887pINNfpe@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- >
- >The only thing that really annoys me about CC is their insistence on
- >finding the worst possible protection method for their products (ie.
- >dongles and crappy printer cables).
-
- I agree about the printer cable, but not about dongles. What other
- technique do you suggest that they use to protect their investment?
- Copy protection? Awful. Embedded name/number? Ineffective. Through
- the use of dongles, they have probably sold 3? times as many copies
- of Impression as they would have done otherwise, which is how they
- have been able to continue improving it, as well as providing technical
- support which most people seem to find acceptable.
-
- Simon
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- Simon Burrows smb@cs.nott.ac.uk psyhsmb@unicorn.nott.ac.uk +44 533 712030
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