registration procedure sucks

Hi,

I just have to tell this to somebody: The Delphi registration procedure
really sucks! Why? Well, imagine you are working overtime because you need
to meet a deadline. Imagine this overtime is not only on a late evening but
also on a public holiday and you aren't in the best mood because of that
anyway. Now, on top of that imagine, that you run into a problem that you
must debug on a specific computer because it is the only one that has the
hardware affected by the problem. What do you do? You install Delphi on
that box. And then you start the IDE, want to get to work and find out that
you installed and registered your copy of Delphi once too many (this
situation with specialized hardware is rather common in my line of work).
The on-line registration won't issue another license key but tells you to
register by phone. Right, try that on a public holiday! I was
rather "annoyed" (must try to avoid a stronger word...<grrrr>).

OK, maybe I should be glad that the license actually allows me to install
Delphi on multiple computers, but still, this was a major pain in the lower
back. I ended up installing Turbo Delphi Explorer because for that I could
easily get a registration key... But that was more than 2 hours wasted at a
time where I couldn't afford even half an hour, not even mentioning that it
went out of my spare time which currently is very limited anyway. :-(

Alternatively I could probably have gone for a cracked version of Delphi
2006. People who just get an illegal copy have it easier than honest
customers, again.

MfG
twm
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