Re: CodeGear - Do you want to sell me an IDE?

Well it'd be easy to break. Just disconnect from your network and run registration.

Not that easy actually, not easier than downloading a crack anyway:
- don't allow to register without a connection.
- allow the IDE to run unregistered, but when unregistered,
have it attempt to call home and try registration.
- if a call home is successful and the application is a known
pirated serial#, deactivate it.

There are ways around that scheme, but they are either annoying (disconnecting the network every time you use the app), or more "complex" than getting a crack (f.i. blocking the app in a firewall) for casual piracy.
Couple that with useful web-based features (like help linking directly to a documentation wiki), and you have a much more solid scheme than the existing one.

However this ensures that if you have to use it in emergency, or if Borland/CodeGear servers goes off the grid (temporarily or not), you aren't stuck.

Eric
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