On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:17 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you need the serial number to unlock the locked versions. For > example, there were locked rpm's and deb's available for a while. > > I think they just didn't anticipate this kind of volume. > > -- John.
I think you hit the nail on the head John though if I was them I would be rejoicing this type of PR is something they would go broke buying normally. Chris re the serial number it takes much fewer cycles to generate a serial number than it does to have you sit at a website inputing information. Given that their infrastructure got progressively leaner and leaner from the point they made the initial offer you can see that their goal was not only to give the software out keeping their promise but also to keep their head above the rush of users hitting their site. So I'd not bander about the defective by design comment without intimate knowledge of their infrastructure but then again heck maybe you like ass suming...
