ah 'the dongle'
amigaguy wrote:
no licence required
Licence or whatever you want to call it... I thought the problem was that Genesi doesn't want to Agree to the Dongle thing. They want OS4 to run on their board, but won't aggree to put the dongle thing on their hardware.
Nor should they, Apple doesn't modify their hardware
or apply for licenses when Raven ports Quake to their
systems...
OS4 would be good for both Hyperion and Genesi.
Agreed.
Both sides probably know this. But if Genesis isn't going to Uphold the Copy Protection Scheme for OS4 then why should Hyperion port it?
It's the developers duty to ensure security on whichever
existing platform they develop for, not the opposite.
What if Hyperion had used a Serial Number Scheme instead of a Dongle Scheme for their "Method of Copy Proctection" ??
This probably would have been much better...conversely,
A-Inc could develop/contract and fund a hardware dongle
for the Peg if software protection was somehow deemed
inadequate (like a serial number).
As I 'myself' see this, only "the duo" loose by not exposing
their product to broader markets...(this BTW is completely
and entirely my OPINION 'only' and may/may not be
actually true).
