Jeez...
I only have one point and it's a very simple point.
Some companies make professional daws that don't need dongles (in fact most?) and some companies make professional plugins that don't need dongles (in fact most?) so while a particular personal reason for not wanting to have a dongle on YOUR system might a perfectly valid personal reason... you NEVER have to use a dongle to make a professional recording so...
Why get
angry about it? Nothing wrong with a discussion about dongles but when people get mad and personally insult others who's opinions about them differ that is ... childish. You do you and I'll do me.
How many daws are actually dongled? How many not? How many pro plugin / instrument sets are actually dongled? How many not? Are those dongled products the
only products you can use to make professional music? If not... move the heck on already.
Why scream about the companies putting an unreasonable burden on you? Just use something else. If you want to use a product that has a dongle because you think that product adds a certain value that another product cannot... then that is a CHOICE or compromise you make. It's a wide and varied free market with lots of choices.
Nobody is twisting your arm to use a dongled product and you have no right to tell a privately owned company how to distribute their intellectual property. You only get to vote with your wallet. "Issues" with things vary depending on whom you ask. The dongle is not an issue to me in any way whatsoever so I suppose that makes me an ignorant fanboi.
I give up. Some people just like to rant.
Manning said it best. He doesn't buy products with dongles.
How easy is that? He didn't call people that don't care one way or the other fanbois or morons. He's an adult.