License change
In the V6 EULA I was allowed to install AQTime on my main PC and, additionally, a laptop. In the V7 EULA this has changed to allow only one install on my main PC. Worse, it is a specific PC, and I can de-install just 3 times before I then have to plead my case to Aut^H^H^HSMartBear.
Oh, and now I'm forced to install and pollute my development machine with the awful HASP. Additionally, I can't turf this rubbish off to a VM (which I normally do for ill-behaved software) since I'm using a Name User license, which in actuality is a Named PC license.
Why do you do this to the customers that are paying your bills? I didn't rip off V6 (didn't even install on my laptop, but it was nice knowing that I could have). As usual, the legitimate well-behaved paying punters get a worse experience than the hackers. Is it really to your benefit that I kick myself and whine "but I paid for this!"?
Might I suggest you nip over to the blindingly excellent Visual Slickedit (http://www.slickedit.com) and check out their forum from a year or so ago? They, too, had named user licenses and actually meant it - I could install on any machine I wanted, so long as it was just me using it. Then they changed the license manage to some thing that mucked with boot sectors, on the basis their product was too easy to nick. To cut to the chase, they were persuaded that they were doing the wrong thing, and they pretty soon went back to their old system, leaving they paying customers happy once more. I don't see them out on the streets with their begging bowls. I do see lots of recommendations for their great product and excellent customer service (and not just because I recommend it to anyone that will listen!). "AQTime? Sure, it does the biz but the licensing..."
Oh, and now I'm forced to install and pollute my development machine with the awful HASP. Additionally, I can't turf this rubbish off to a VM (which I normally do for ill-behaved software) since I'm using a Name User license, which in actuality is a Named PC license.
Why do you do this to the customers that are paying your bills? I didn't rip off V6 (didn't even install on my laptop, but it was nice knowing that I could have). As usual, the legitimate well-behaved paying punters get a worse experience than the hackers. Is it really to your benefit that I kick myself and whine "but I paid for this!"?
Might I suggest you nip over to the blindingly excellent Visual Slickedit (http://www.slickedit.com) and check out their forum from a year or so ago? They, too, had named user licenses and actually meant it - I could install on any machine I wanted, so long as it was just me using it. Then they changed the license manage to some thing that mucked with boot sectors, on the basis their product was too easy to nick. To cut to the chase, they were persuaded that they were doing the wrong thing, and they pretty soon went back to their old system, leaving they paying customers happy once more. I don't see them out on the streets with their begging bowls. I do see lots of recommendations for their great product and excellent customer service (and not just because I recommend it to anyone that will listen!). "AQTime? Sure, it does the biz but the licensing..."
