Testimonials
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Clearly it has been a priority to establish a copy protection scheme which also works once the project is compiled and running with the Matlab runtime environment (MCR). I am happy to say Taurus can do all this unlike other exe wrapper protection programs
I have tried. The alternative was to use a C based implementation which can access the API of embedded protection systems. But this is unnecessarily complicated.
Dr. Peter King
JPlusConsulting
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