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Old 4th July 2009   #216
manning1
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with great respect mate, the whole daw market is changeing and will continue to do so.
read my comments on windows n read tween the lines , and if you really think about it
deeply youll see that the whole hacking phenomena has occurred because its technically possible. and the underlying technology platform makes it possible.

let me say i will never understand what hackers derive from all this.
it would be complete anathema to the great software engineers i worked with over the years.

but in my view with respect to say we gotta have dongles cos of hackers is
replaceing one problem with another.
"lock up your daughters" approach just doesnt work.
neither did chastity belts . always someone around willing to break in..lol.

its transferring the problem to respectable users imho. and inconveniencing them.
let me also say there are millions of honest decent people who pay for their daw software.

heres another fact.
software devs are very smart people.
thus they will KNOW the risks in advance from hackers before entering
the daw software or any other software market that runs on the win os.
do they not understand the risks from hackers ?? OF COURSE THEY DO.
we are talking bout very intelligent people here.
who understand the risks.

so the old adage applies..."if you cant stand the heat get outta the kitchen".
OR..and heres the subtlle part , dont go playing in a kitchen created by someone else ,
but build your own kitchen. (ie build your own platform OS and daw.)
on this latter aspect theres nothing to stop a daw developer from building their own
OS plus daw plus sound device.
and ive a feeling this is a trend we might see.
ie...sell the sound device and the OS and daw are bundled into the price.
god bless.
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