Is the security model for licenses correct? If someone tries to start another copy of IDEA with the same license key, IDEA tells me someone is accessing the key, great, then it informs me that it is saving my stuff, again great, and that it is shutting ME down, not great. I was first in, I should have priority, otherwise we're going to have about 20 seconds to make changes before someone else clobbers you?
--ekiM On Tuesday 18 December 2001 02:25 pm, you wrote: > Well, in my opinion a nice way to compensate initial costs of software is a > period of time for free updates and nicely priced updates afterwards. By > the way, after buying IDEA you have 8 months of free updates. What if I > purchase an update after 10 months or so. Do I get another 8 months of free > updates then or does this count for full versions only? > > Michael > > > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im > > Auftrag von Chris Merrill > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2001 20:15 > > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Betreff: Re: [Eap-list] OFFTOPIC: Idea for personal use > > > > Wangjammer5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > FWIW, IDEA is really great. However I do not feel that many individuals > > > are happy to pay that kind of money for an IDE, especially when you can > > > refresh your eval key quite easily. After all, at the end of the day > > > you can always go back to "vi" and "javac" for free. > > > > Most of those people won't buy it...no matter how cheap it is... > > because they're cheap and/or lazy....they will use whatever > > they can for free. > > > > > My point? I think everyone would sell a lot more software if it was > > > much cheaper. You can buy a computer game for $50 or less (which is too > > > much for a game!). I think that's about the maximum the bulk of people > > > can stomach for software. > > > > The market disagrees with you...they are buying LOTS of $50 games. > > > > > Why do you think half the world has a ripped off copy of Adobe > > > Photoshop on their hard disk? > > > > Because they are dishonest, cheap and lazy. They wouldn't buy it > > if it was $1...if they could still get it for free. > > > > > Isn't it a case of 100,000 users @ $50 rather than $1,000 @ $200 ? > > > > You're assuming that lowering the prices would raise the number > > of sales...but if they could get a disabled version of something else > > for free...they will use it, instead of IDEA. Even you think that $50 > > is too much. > > > > IDEA is already VERY competetively priced. By your logic...if they > > made it $1, they would sell 1,000,000 copies. Not likely. > > > > I think wise move is to let them continue to download free keys. > > Eventually they might buy it, when they have the money. If not, > > at least they will tell their friends about it. > > > > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Eap-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list -- --ekiM _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
