IIRC (and I may not be), when the registration scheme for Finale 2004 was announced, I believe Coda -- or at least, some people at Coda -- were actually sympathetic to Dennis's ideas. I seem to recall someone saying something about at least creating some method for a user to transfer their registration from one computer to another without having to contact Coda.

I guess nothing ever came of that, eh?

While I think Dennis's idea is excellent and I fail to see how Coda would be harmed in any way by either putting a universal unlock code in escrow with a third party, or at the very minimum announcing *some* kind of worst-case scenario plan that doesn't leave its users in the lurch, I'm certainly not about to penalize myself by refusing to upgrade. Partly that's because in the event of Coda's demise, I'm extremely confident a solution will be forthcoming -- whether we get the universal unlock code from Coda, or via Dennis's escrow scheme, or it's leaked by a Coda employee, or we have to defeat the copy protection illegally (this can already be done), or some other method entirely, I don't much care. But I think the likelihood of us getting stuck without any solution at all is extremely small.

Of course, Dennis's solution is much better, and I encourage Coda to adopt it, because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by doing so. If they continue to refuse, that's unfortunate, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

- Darcy
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