I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED AND SAD. STEINBERG NEEDS TO JOIN THE 21st CENTURY AND LET US USE THE PRODUCTS THE WAY OUR WORK DICTATES.

Won't the school be providing the licence at work though? So you could use yours at home.vintagevibe wrote:Yes, Cor anglais 16, I'm a music teacher. I need to work at school and at home on the same files.
wcreed wrote:> STEINBERG NEEDS TO JOIN THE 21st CENTURY
Maybe YOU should join the 21st century. Dongle protected software doesn't get pirated. Non-protected software DOES get pirated.
Thank you for your response Daniel. I was truly heartbroken when I learned of the licensing limitation. I have followed you since the early Sibelius days and I have enormous respect for you. This post gives me hope and I will follow this issue with great interest. Thank you for all you do and have done!Daniel at Steinberg wrote:As I've said in reply to a number of comments with similar sentiments on the blog over the last day or so, I hear you loud and clear on this point. We do not want our licensing technology to be an obstacle to buying Dorico. We are not going to be in a position to release Dorico without some kind of licensing system in place, and we are also for practical reasons limited to the options that our eLicenser technology provides. Please let me revisit this issue with my colleagues, and I will come back to you with further information.
DG wrote:Won't the school be providing the licence at work though? So you could use yours at home.vintagevibe wrote:Yes, Cor anglais 16, I'm a music teacher. I need to work at school and at home on the same files.
DG
Your hymn book analogy does not work for software. The price is comparable with the industry and is not relevant to this subject. Doing what you do will not work for me since I also need to run large projects that would not run on my laptop - only on my far more powerful desktop.Michael Haslam wrote:Rather than have to carry hymnbooks between home and church I have copies at home and at church. I don’t blame the publishers for this situation. I have had Sibelius installed on my laptop for 7 years. I carry the laptop around with me so I don’t need two licences. If I wanted to use Sibelius (or Dorico) on a church computer I’d get the church to buy a licence. Given the power of the software I consider it very cheap. €600 would pay for about 15 hours of a professional copyist’s time.
a music teacher?vintagevibe wrote:I'm a music teacher.
I need to work at school and at home on the same files.
Thanks Daniel - fwiw, if you need to convince the folks at Steinberg you could use several arguments: 1. Sibelius has two licenses and you want Dorico to be at least as attractive as Sibelius in every way (including the licensing terms) so as to tempt current Sibelius users with a crossgrade; and 2. In terms of continuity, computers can break down for whatever reason (hard drive failure, a virus, etc.), and if they do and you're in the middle of a project right before a deadline, you are dead in the water - unless you have a second machine and backup files.Daniel at Steinberg wrote:As I've said in reply to a number of comments with similar sentiments on the blog over the last day or so, I hear you loud and clear on this point. We do not want our licensing technology to be an obstacle to buying Dorico. We are not going to be in a position to release Dorico without some kind of licensing system in place, and we are also for practical reasons limited to the options that our eLicenser technology provides. Please let me revisit this issue with my colleagues, and I will come back to you with further information.
The only thing to watch is the soft licence is tied to one computer. If you want to move it you ave to go with the USB eLicenser.FriFlo wrote:Ok, one worry is eliminated! I read this from a Steinberg employee so it is save:
"It will be soft-eLicneser based. No dongle will be required."
Alright, if they would decide to offer to licenses per purchase or a small fee for a second license, there is nothing to complain about.
That wouldn't be a problem to me, as long as I can move that license in between elicenser hard and software version back and forth as often as I want to. I have only used the hardware dongle, not the software version of licenser, so I am not sure, but I assume it should be possible.DG wrote:The only thing to watch is the soft licence is tied to one computer. If you want to move it you ave to go with the USB eLicenser.FriFlo wrote:Ok, one worry is eliminated! I read this from a Steinberg employee so it is save:
"It will be soft-eLicneser based. No dongle will be required."
Alright, if they would decide to offer to licenses per purchase or a small fee for a second license, there is nothing to complain about.
DG
FriFlo wrote: That wouldn't be a problem to me, as long as I can move that license in between elicenser hard and software version back and forth as often as I want to. I have only used the hardware dongle, not the software version of licenser, so I am not sure, but I assume it should be possible.
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