Aurore de Blois wrote:I'm not a fan of the dongle either, pretty sure nobody is.
back in the before-time, it was how software was licensed but things have evolved since then. If BMD didn't own fusion eyeon would certainly be dongle-free already but BMD is a tech and hardware company so it may be a while before they get around to accepting that software licensing through a hardware dongle is very 1990's and they may be the only ones still clinging to that concept, and who knows? it might actually be hurting sales.
and on that point, it might also explain why fusion is sold through their authorized retailers instead of just direct from them- BMD is used to selling their stuff that way...
I agree that sales of fusion 9 would be huge if they just got rid of the dongle and made it a download purchase from their site, but then their authorized retailers might have something to say about that so who knows what's happening behind the scenes.
my guess is that the dongle will go away with fusion, if newtek can see the light on removing software dongles from lightwave and still sell hardware through retailers, BMD can too. just might be a little while before we see it happen.
just my humble opinion though, a voice in the wilderness.
Good words, thank you. So we hope really the best that it will happen. Here in Brazil it's a mess. If you want information about a product you wait weeks for an answer ( or you don't get any ). So, this distribution model doesn't work very well. Then, sometimes you have totally abusive prices ( not only taxes, because they can). And for sure Brazil is not the only country with such a mess. That's why I hope, at least, software could be distributed 100% online.
I hope I could explain a little bit, why I'm upset. But I also understand, that processes take their time, unfortunately it's difficult to wait.