Re: define linearization
Re: define linearization
- Subject: Re: define linearization
- From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 03:47:59 -0500
At 5:34 am -0400 8/20/02, Lee Blevins wrote:
> 2) The product uses a dongle. Our company policy explicitly forbids
the purchase of any software which uses physical copy-protection and
specifically states that dongles are prohibited. That makes the
dongle a killer for purchasing any RIP which uses one. Are there any
quality RIPs that don't?
What a bizzare policy.
That would keep you from using most professional rip s/w and leave
you with only a very limited, low end choice of products.
I don't find it bizarre -- I fully agree with it.
Dongles are problematic, failure-prone and irretrievable should the
issuing company fail.
Any essential business process that can be disabled by the breakdown
of a single physical item is precarious. If that item is not an
unavoidably necessary part of the process then it is unacceptably
precarious. There is nothing about a dongle that is necessary to any
business process other than a misguided developer's desire to treat
his legitimate customers as though they were criminals.
I see no real difference between trusting an essential function of
your business to a dongle and keeping your corporate financial
records in a stranger's house.
Whatever. That is the policy here and it is inviolable. I wouldn't
defile one of my own machines with a dongle either.
-=-Dennis
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