Perhaps i should have been more clear so that you guys got my point. I thought i was but since two people misunderstood i'll clarify.
1. I went to their web site 2. filled out a form with my name and email address 3. upon submitting the form they emailed me a serial number. 4. The email instructs me to go back to their web site fill out a second form with my name, email address (that sounds familiar) and serial number they sent me. Upon submitting this form I am now told that I am registered. Regardless of how long it took for that serial number to arrive or any difficulties I could have had otherwise. There is some redundancy there. Their servers were under such heavy load because they designed the process so that users users to come back for a second visit. Hence my defective comment. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Brian Friday <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Yes that why we need to register, but not reason enough for me to visit the site twice. >> >> I think they just didn't anticipate this kind of volume. >> Perhaps if they didn't require people to visit the site twice the volume would have been maybe "half" as much. Which might have been a load that (perhaps) they could have handled. Being that I have no intimate knowledge of their infrastructure. >> -- 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... its "banter". > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
