@Jacad Most OS vendors offer some sort of 'family discount'-such as the five seat license OS X bundle that Apple sells. Why couldn't the hardware tied key scheme be retained, but you have to buy all five keys at once? Or at least you have to pay for them all at once, then you have five keys in your name to reg the next five MorphOS boxes you set up, be they boxes for the kids, wife, or maybe a couple you haven't gotten yet.

That way, I could just cough up (say) $500 and all my MOS licensing needs would be taken care of-the next five MOS boxes I install with my name get their own hardware encrypted key, just like now. In fact, you'd be getting money from people BEFORE they even install the OS on some of the machines-pay now, play later I've got several broken Pegs, plus several not broken G4 towers I'd like to register. Doing over $200 US for each one-fugeddaboutit. I'm not made of money. $500 for the next five-I could even get that by my wife, sort of

I can't imagine that a feature couldn't be added to the keyfile registration system that you currently have, which keeps track of each user and how many files they have left.

So you get money in advance, less bitterness about the locked key scheme, ease of use for users, and probably.. more users!!

Win-win, no?