Is this something someone can tell us more about? [image] Steinberg @SteinbergMedia Hello all, For many of you this is the announcement you have been waiting for. While we put our heart and soul into developing ground-breaking products in your best interests, we haven’t accomplished our …

You might be interested to read more about it in this thread .

Thank you PjotrB! Maybe someone could delete this thread then?

There’s also a new announcement today: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/follow-up-regarding-elicenser-discontinuation/705616

If the intention is to move to ilok would it be possible to advise well in advance. VSL is also moving to this and given the number of customers there may be a rush on the USB sticks. Presumably you’ll be able to move the licence across. Expensive as the ilok USB is, I don’t want to rely on the clo…

I’m baffled (all due respect) with how many people read the announcement and still ask about the new dongles. Daniel specifically states the future will be “dongle-free”. Hard to see a run on dongles then.

Also the number of people that seem to (mistakenly) think new licensing system = subscription, e.g. most of the replies here: https://twitter.com/steinbergmedia/status/1367421306837344257?s=21 But yeah, I don’t think “one thing is for sure: the future will be dongle-free” could be any clearer.

I noticed that also on the forum. New license management system ≠ changing our purchasing model.

iLok cloud is dongle free, but i’d rather be tied to a dongle than a wifi hotspot. :wink:

I don’t think I’m dropping a bombshell here when I say that we will not be using iLok as our future license management system.

In which case, where is the licence to be kept? I don’t want it on my computer unless I can readily transfer it to another possibly by a simple signing off one and onto the other (which will probably mean the internet so I’d have to do that before I set out). Good about not subscribing. I don’t do …

Dongle free Dorico at last?

Dorico

derKirchenmusiker March 21, 2021, 1:57am 16

See this post by Daniel here: