Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 08:01:32 09/27/05
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Gerd I agree with you. I think Fabian is doing a great job. <insertRant> Let's look at the alternative. Other companies are making people rebuy the software after x-installs. Or having to do finger printing and limited to just 1 machine. There is a lot of horrible license out there, but this isn't one of them. He's not trying to restrict us, he's just watching his back. If you buy a copy then it seems apparent they are more than willing to work with you when you do make hardware changes in the future. It honestly can't be that difficult for an end-user to run a program for a couple seconds and send the key. If you upgrade your hardware even every 6 months, then you've at most wasted 4-5 minutes a year roughly in getting keys. Is this too much to do to help Fabian financially? It's frustrating that so many people where praising Fruit just a couple weeks ago, and saying how much they wanted to buy Fruit. Now it seems they are turning their backs just because they might be inconvenienced by a couple minutes. I hope this didn't offend anyone, nor do I want to upset anyone. I'm just frustrated that people can't see the whole picture, and are attacking Fabian because he wants to keep his investment profitable and fair. Josh > >Hi Peter, > >a difficult issue. I can understand Fabien. I have seen in german chess clubs >for instance, that "hardcore users" passed some (pirate?) copies around. My >guess, as i sold IsiChess in 94-97: at least 10 pirate copies from one sold, if >not even more. > >Otoh i can understand honest customers, harmed by copy protection. > >Gerd
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