Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 11:17:16 09/26/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 13:49:50, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 26, 2005 at 13:29:43, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>On September 26, 2005 at 13:05:01, Gabor Szots wrote: >> >>>I read with astonishment that I must submit a "fingerprint" of my computer if I >>>want to obtain a personal licence code for Fruit. Does this really mean that I >>>can't use it on 2 computers? Of the commercials I have Shredder, Gandalf, Deep >>>Sjeng and Ruffian, and I have installed all of them on 2 machines. And I did not >>>have to pay twice. >>> >>>Gábor >> >>Okay we expected a turmoil. ;-) You will be able to use it on two or more >>machines. Just submit your Hardware Fingerprint of each of your systems. There >>is no hard-limit but it should be clear that one license isn't meant for a >>10-machine-farm. Two or three are okay though. If you move to a new computer >>after some time you will get a new key for your new computer as well. >> >>We decided for activation since the market for pure playing strength is so small >>and selling Fruit only to a fraction of the actual user base won't yield in a >>significant turnover to support Fabien. >> >>Perhaps I should clarify that on the website more prominent (although it is in >>the Support-Area). But we don't want to invite key sharers frankly. >> >>I hope for your understanding. >> >>kind regards >> >>Joachim Rang > >I clearly understand it. >It seems that fabien is smarter than SMK not only in programming but also in >making money and I guess that SMK could earn more money in case of using that >idea. No, in the past several people complained about not being able to move the program from one computer to another as the agreement is to use it only on one computer at time not to restrict it to one selected computer on a specific hard disk and so on. Even Microsoft did not went on with this as it would not have been accepted. There are programs that needs other programs not to be installed to work. This is a sort of copy protection. I personally did buy some of them and not installed them as I want to have in my computers the program I want no matter if I use them or not. I think it is not acceptable at all that a program tells you what you can have in a computer or not. As a matter of fact next time I'll ask for this kind of protection and not buy the program that have it. Most people hate this things and so do I. I know it is a matter of thrust, but still people wants easy to handle programs and not getting too restricted in any way. Of course anybody can do whatever they want, but we, as customers we are not forced to accept anything is being offered, but try to get what we like more. > >Note that there are exactly 3 computers that I practically use for analysis of >my correspondence games(in part of the time) but only one of them is defined as >my computer(the computer that I have at home). > >I hope that it is ok if I buy fruit and use fruit in all of them. Well, you need to buy 3 copies at least... > >Uri Sandro
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