From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: April 19, 2006 3:09:04 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Astro IIDC license transfer

Dear Planeten Paultje;

On 19-Apr-06, at 2:52 PM, Planeten Paultje wrote:

Hi Milton,

> We have no transfer policy at all. You can either register for a

> Camera or a Mac. If you register for a camera, then you can use

> that camera on multiple Macs and if you register for a Mac, then

> you can use multiple cameras on that Mac. In your case, you can

> register a Camera and then can use it on your "Future" Mac.

Well, I have a lot of cameras which I would like to use on this one

laptop. So what you are saying is that when I buy a new laptop, I'll

have to buy a new license as well?

Yes.

I assume verification of a sale is prohibitive of mounting a license

exchange program.

Yes it is prohibitive. The Mac scientific market is miniscule - especially for Astronomy products and every sale is important. If I use a simple password scheme it will get cracked and will show up on a warez site (and don't say it doesn't happen - I know for a fact it happened to Equinox). And setting up servers, writing network code and then creating client side "challenge & answer" code is not trivial and I'd rather put time and effort into making a better product rather than wasting time on verification procedures.

How do other users go about this?

They buy new licenses.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.

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