Re: Registration sucks again

Even if CodeGear went out of business, there are contingency plans to
ensure the servers for registration would remain up for a period of
several years (5 years if I remember correctly........)


Due respect, Chris, but five years is nowhere near long enough.

It's not that unusual for the big corporates to run business process
software at least twice that old - sometimes 20 years old or more. My own
company (a major telecomms operator) still maintains (and occasionally
updates) an exchange system with software that's 25 years old. Written in
PL/M (remember that?) and compiled on a DEC VAX. It would be a really
significant problem if PL/M suddenly stopped working. Another example: its
major customer support system was developed in the late '80s and is still
going strong to this day.

Also, there's a whole floor of one of our buildings that handles defence
contracts, and it is isolated from the internet for security reasons.
Again, this sort of thing isn't that unusual. Anything that requires
on-line activation is knackered straight away. (And no, you can't take the
machine elsewhere and connect it to the internet temporarily while you
activate - it is deemed too much of a security risk.)

Seriously, Chris, you've gotta get rid of this on-line
registration/activation lark. How many times do we have to explain that it
just doesn't prevent piracy, but it does greatly inconvenience some of your
customers?

I seem to remember reading in this group that a cracked D2007 appeared
within two days (or was it less?) of its launch. QED.

I think we should be discussing serious alternatives to on-line
activation/registration. Between us we must surely be able to invent a
system which satisfies CodeGear AND its customers!

We're supposed to be clever, aren't we?

Steve


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