On 10/19/07, Bob Blick <bbblick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Here's a place where I'll get on my soapbox. Imagine for a moment if
> your toolset requires a hardware dongle, key disk, or remote activation.
> Can make it kind of difficult in some scenarios. I tried to explain that
> recently to HiTech but they had themselves convinced that they weren't
> going to lose any customers other than me.
>

It is a bit difficult for them to do in this case. For small compiler
vendors, it is not easy to do copyright protection other than
resort to hardware dongle or locking to IP address.

Without copyright protection, the vendors may suffer loss of
revenue due to missue of the software.

I am not so sure if there are good answers to software
copyright protection methods for ptofssional software with
relative few customers.

When I bought PICC 7.85, therre was no dongle and key
disk. But now we have dongles for IAR C compiler for ARM.
And our Keil C51 Compiler licenses are locked to IP
addresses (they allow one desktop and one laptop for
one license since the developer will use both).

Xiaofan
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