This is a good point.. if someone can buy a program that is not dongled they will buy that before the program that has $100.00 tacked on it to cover the cost of the dongle. (Ever wonder why win95/98 doesn't have copy protection?) > > Oh, wonderful; Though I can see self-modifying code that spools down > from the dongle as you run the program - so that snapshotting the .exe > during execution wouldn't do you any good - imagine what the effects of > a ONE-bit error are. A nice hard crash, GPF, that sort of thing... > > Everyone here writes perfect, bug-free code and makes perfect, > problem-free hardware, though, of course > > I won't BUY anything with such a dongle. Period. There's always > competing software that's IMHO SANELY set up. > > Mark, mwillis@nwlink.com >