On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
Of course this could be good for REAL if they did what Borland did
years ago with Turbo Pascal
They knew folks were stealing the software but it was really
useless without the manuals and language references
So people would buy it just to get the manuals
REAL would be smart to take advantage of this and make it so the
old versions that can be hacked have no LR in them so that it's
not as useful without manuals and the LR
Hmm. REALbasic; Windows; Hackers. The latter two go hand in hand. I
guess Mac people are more used to being honest.
No specific mention of Windows folks. There are as many in either
camp I'd guess.
It was more a smart way to leverage what was happening anyways.
Borland did it by making the product much more useful with the full
set of documentation.
You could have photocopied it but that would have cost more than just
buying the manuals
MS did it about Word version 2 or 3 for the Mac
lots of people pirated it, and MS offered a free "upgrade" to anyone
that had such an ill gotten copy. Send them $50 or so and they would
end you a real license key.
That's it. No manuals, no disks, nothing else just a real key. They
got a lot of people on the upgrade train doing that.
The reality is that there will be pirates. No matter how good your
software checks are there will be pirates.
Vista will be pirated soon regardless of the WGA etc. Someone will
figure out how to work around it.
So the question is not IF there are pirates but how do you turn
pirates into real paying customers.
Some companies have done this very successfully.
Besides, Win32 users were given free versions of 5.5.5 only a few
years ago. Some publications in the UK were offering free versions
of 5.? as well at the same time.
Yes. MacUpdate or something like that
Actually, 5.5.4 isn't all that different than 5.5.5 and will work
fine on OS X 10.4.x. There were probably a few fixes but they may
not affect Tony at all.
I believe the cost of the upgrade CD from REAL isn't all that much.
It's mostly the hassle of doing it.
All I could find was a fee of $25 to make a cd with all the versions
you own
No mention of the free upgrades for each version although it would
make sense to include those
The page that mentions this isn't linked to on their site that I can
find but is on the FTP
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