Other companies ditched the Dongle years ago. I’ve been with Steinberg from the beginning.Ĭubase 11 has been extremely reliable for me over the years (probably the most reliable version) and I hope that Cubase 12 proves to be the same.īut, I feel that transition to cloud based authorisation has been too slow. I’ve been with Steinberg for longer than I care to remember, starting in my parents loft in my teens. Writing software is bloody HARD and I applaud Steinberg for the software they have released over the years. “What good will more words do”…I feel a song coming on…probably been used before…but will use it anyway and share the royalties…Īs the instigator of this topic, I feel obliged to reply to comments.Īs a software developer myself, I totally get it. I believe that we should all be very proud and grateful of what Steinberg has accomplished. Though a fictional character, I am certain that La Forge would be well proud of this achievement. It is truly amazing how seamless the transition has been given the high complexity of the problem. In the leadup to the release it was made very clear, many times, that as new versions of software were released, that those new versions would be using the new licensing system. Expecting old versions of software to work with a new licensing system is sort of like this. Indeed, one would not expect that a petrol car would be able to plug in at electric charging stations. One would not expect brand new software to run on a Mac from 2007. No one expects a browser from 1995 to run modern web pages. No one expects an older operating system to properly run on new hardware. Add to that the need to support already existing customers, and not create too much upheaval, and the distributed nature of some systems, and the reality that older systems were probably not created with the intent of allowing for easy transition away from those systems, the time it takes is compounded. That abstraction and structure takes time and ingenuity. Even when it is possible, without a lot of abstraction and structure, changes in one place can have unforeseen ramifications in completely unrelated features. Or rather, it doesn’t mean it can be coded so that you would get the desired result in your lifetime (or, in fact, the lifetime of the universe). Just because you can think it up, doesn’t mean it can be coded. Even then, the discussion that the ship would have to revert to the old system and that engineers would spend months rewriting systems for every ship in the fleet is only something you read in the novel.

Commander La Forge is tasked with completely rewriting the ships operating system in an episode while under attack from aliens. Perhaps it is the movies, or Sci-Fi where some Lt. When most people think about the way software is created, they imagine that there are people who speak the language of “code”.

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