I have followed this forum since day one, even though I wasn’t an owner yet on day one. I’ve read virtually every thread in that time that has dealt with the issue of licensing and the many heartfelt comments on it. In all that time I have never worked offline, but tomorrow I am planning to. And I have just now spent a lot of time re-reading all those old threads. And I’ve discovered, rather to my surprise, that as long as all goes well and I don’t need to access anything that requires an internet connection, I’ll be fine. (I don’t use the dongle method and never have.)
My question is this: if an installation using an eLicense on the hard drive can work offline, why does an installation that uses USB dongle have to have it plugged in to run? If the presence of the licensing information only matters when the software is being installed, as several threads have stated, why does it matter when the app is merely running? I can’t seem to get my head around this discrepancy. Or perhaps there isn’t one and I’m just not getting how the license actually works.
Not that it matters for tomorrow, evidently, but I’m very curious.
–Len Bassham