Re: Here we go again -- problems



Uffe Kousgaard wrote:

Just imagine how much simpler life would be, if the download was a
simple link as in the good old days:

http://www.codegear.com/downloads/d2007_update1.exe

But no, it has to be part of a very complex procedure with logins
etc. in order to maximize the amount of problems you are creating for
yourself and your customers. All just to give a bunch of sales people
lots of statistics to work with and to prevent piracy (sigh). Of
course this has no impact on piracy at all. It just annoys paying
customers.

This should be newsgroup Post of the Week...


Probably futile telling you this.......

....but definitely won't be ;-)

Ian
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