From: "daffyddsant" <usenet@davidillig.com>

Date: September 19, 2012 9:09:31 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: No Golden Key, No Future?

David: 

Will I be able to move my Astro IIDC from an old Mac to a new one  

without a golden key?

Milton Aupperle:

No you won't.

The rest of this--your decision to go out of business &c.--is your affair.

But this policy of canceling the eight licenses I have bought from you over the years when I buy a new Mac is unfathomable and virtually without precedent in the software industry. You're surprised it hasn't caused your customers to stand and cheer? Even the money-grubbers at Adobe will let me move--not copy, but move--the license for their software to two new Macs. And two years later to two new Macs again--because Adobe provides a deactivate utility for the old Macs. I ran CS3 on three generations of Macs without violating my license agreement before I upgraded to CS5. When my wife needed Adobe CS, I bought a license for CS6, entitling me to install Adobe CS on four Macs (2 x CS5, 2 x CS6).

Software Bisque charges me $30 per year for a Multi-OS and Six License Add On. I'm not certain about this, because I have never tried to abuse their license, but I believe that they have no protection; one *could* run TheSkyX Pro on multiple OS's on multiple machines without paying that $30, I think. Bisque's annual fee is justified because they provide a valuable service for that money and I think that it works for Bisque because there are a sufficient number of people who wouldn't steal software regardless of how easy it might be to do so. If the service weren't worth $30 per year to me I would revert to my two basic licenses (1 Mac and 1 Windows) and deinstall the software from other machines.