Why?

[George Simon]

Excellent points.
I have 2 computers in my office I do development in.
Do I have to buy 2 full-version copies of filePro?


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-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:58 PM
To: filepro-list at celestial.com
Subject: Re: Why?

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
<snip>
> If I build an app, and I deploy a couple hundred copies on a given
> point release of filePro, and test it six ways to Sunday over hundreds
> of hours of labor...
>
> and then you tell me that I am *required* to upgrade the engine
> gratuitously.

I don't know why I am jumping in here, everyone can fight their own
battles...

But if all of a sudden you had problems with 5.0.09, wouldn't it be
incumbent upon you to test with a 5.0.13 version to see if that fixed
the problem? I see well over a hundred things fixed between those
versions, some pretty major.

The unsaid issue here is that for Win32 native users, you need to
license filePro to a specific hard drive volume ID. Not a problem if you
have a one2one relationship between paid versions and installations.
Problematic if you try and run fp on a computer and you don't have an
activation key that that matches your hard disk's current volume ID. I
believe 5.0.09 did not require that type of activation for Win32 users,
which may be the reason for some to not move past that release point.

--
Walter

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