Posted by Napalm68 on 12/28/05 20:22

Lee@DVDDebate wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:43:03 GMT, "Schrodinger" <no@way.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Of course, look at the software market. An application with an uncrackable
>>dongle is far far more expensive than one without. I wonder why.
>>
>
> And far slower as well, if the hackers of music software like Cubase
> are to be believed. Apparently the software could be up to 40% faster
> if the copyright mechanism wasn't so clumsy and intrusive. I had a
> link to an article about it somewhere, but I can't seem to find it
> now.
>
Reminds me of some development work I did in a "real time" operating system -
QNX. The licensing software they had on was just debilitating and required
network access (it would run on all machines and check each other machine that
licences were all up to spec), and would bring down the entire system is the
network was not too hot. It ended up being disabled. but what a fucking joke -
it was supposed to be a real time OS, but even high priority local processes
would get bumped by this POS licencing daemon.

The moral of the story? Well, I don't know if anyone actually uses qnx anymore.
Linux anyone?...

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