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Originally Posted by m127  That's a good idea though. Maybe I will start a thread on non-dongled software.
We already know we have choices L. Your insistence is not needed "either". Actually I already switched to Reaper for new projects several months ago.
Regretfully, I have about 600 projects done in the stinkbug product, thus any change in policy would still benefit me and many others. |
Cool.
But you don't have to repeatedly post the Reaper license terms ... I use Reaper also and being a self-made millionaire like Justin allows one to do those kinds of things with their pet projects. Great daw but monkey see monkey do doesn't apply here. If you expect Steinberg to drop all of their copy protection and just "trust people" to pay for it like Reaper ... you are kidding yourself ... sorry. If Cubase had those same terms it would be *really, really* popular (more popular than it is now even) and lots of people would never pay for it.
See the many people using the SX3 and N3 cracks to this day two versions later. They don't use cracks because the cracks have no dongle, they use cracks because they don't have to pay for it.
As to your "stinkbug" projects... why did you buy a daw with a dongle in the first place? Why not Sonar or some other non-dongled daw?
Look, of course there is a valid discussion to be had about whether companies should dongle or not. But at some point it gets ridiculous. redundant, counterproductive and pointless. This discussion crossed over (imo) long ago. Steinberg obviously is of the opinion that their product is of enough value that the dongle won't stop most people from buying it... and it looks like they're correct... C5 seems to be a pretty successful release.
A 20 page thread on GS where we insult each other isn't likely to change those facts and/or their minds about that.
I'll be curious to see if when Reaper reaches the level of features of Logic, Samp, Cubendo if it stays with the current license model. We'll see.