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relyt

# 857
Just looking around

Posts: 20 from 2014/6/5

From: Lyons, KS, USA

As I read through this thread, it appears that folks are posting the number of their registration, or invoice number (I thought the two were related). I see nothing of a registration number in any emails from MorphOS support. How are other registered users able to determine their registration number?
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»07.12.16 - 00:07

Andreas_Wolf

# 858
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12132 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> As I read through this thread, it appears that folks are posting the number of
> their registration, or invoice number (I thought the two were related).

That's correct.

> I see nothing of a registration number in any emails from MorphOS support.
> How are other registered users able to determine their registration number?

The number is in the email from support@morphos-team.net with the subject "[morphos support] MorphOS Registration". It contains the following text (with XXXX highlighted by me indicating where the registration number is to be found):

Quote:

Attention:
If you didn't register using the MorphOS Registration Tool and think this mail was sent to you in mistake then please forward this message to support@morphos-team.net . Thanks.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello xxx,

Many thanks for your MorphOS registration.
To complete the registration process, you must now purchase MorphOS. Once your payment is confirmed, our support team will send you your personal keyfile by e-mail.
Please note that this is a manual process and thus could take a while until it is verified.
The supported payment method is PayPal. To proceed with payment, just click the following link:

http://registrations.morphos-team.net:80/payment/XXXX?h=xxx

If you are unable to use PayPal or have further questions about payment, please contact us at payment@morphos-team.net .
--
MorphOS Support Team
---------------------------------------------------------------------
MorphOS
The fun operating system for geeks
http://www.morphos-team.net/ - http://www.morphos.de/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This is an automatically generated message.
»07.12.16 - 00:43

relyt

# 859
Just looking around

Posts: 20 from 2014/6/5

From: Lyons, KS, USA

Thank you, Andreas_Wolf. In my case, I am reg number 2616, Dec. 4, 2014.
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»07.12.16 - 01:01

Papiosaur

# 860
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2174 from 2003/4/10

From: France

#3462 at 23.12.16 (for my new PowerBook G4 17" 1.67 MHz (1680x1050)

Happy holidays and merry christmas to the MorphOS Team and all MorphOS users
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»24.12.16 - 08:08

Pgovotsos

# 861
Cocoon

Posts: 56 from 2016/3/9

I'm #3509 on February 6 for a Powerbook A1138.
»07.02.17 - 04:17

Symbola

# 862
Just looking around

Posts: 16 from 2015/9/22

From: Plymouth, UK

07/02/2017

#3510

PowerBook A1106
»07.02.17 - 22:21

Bodie

# 863
Just looking around

Posts: 9 from 2003/6/7

From: Melbourne

Mac Mini G4 A1103

#3522

14 Feb

Good to be back to using it.

[ Edited by Bodie 14.02.2017 - 18:07 ]
»14.02.17 - 08:49

takemehomegrandma

# 864
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24

Quote:

Bodie wrote:
Mac Mini G4 A1103

#3522

14 Feb

Good to be back to using it.

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»15.02.17 - 09:27

Barren

# 865
Caterpillar

Posts: 33 from 2016/12/29

Not sure where all the numbers from #3511 to #3521 ended up... and I see more gaps...
Anyway, if I can trust that #3522 is actually the last number, then I'm:

-#3523 - Finally switched to MOS 3.9 from the old 1.4.5 for my PegII

-#3524 - Bought second licence for an used PowerMac dual G5 which arrived few days ago and seems working great, crossing my fingers (but I prefer to still keep my Peg working and fully functional, so in emergency I still have it)

...if not, please feel free to correct my #s
»14.03.17 - 19:07

asrael22

# 866
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany

That's weird. I just got #3550 for an 14" iBook G4 on 2nd March.

Manfred
»14.03.17 - 19:18

koszer

# 867
Paladin of the Pegasos

Posts: 1246 from 2004/2/8

From: Poland

@Barren:

Your reg number is somewhere at the end of the PayPal link you got when registering.
»14.03.17 - 19:55

amigadave

# 868
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21

From: Northern Calif...

Quote:

koszer wrote:
@Barren:

Your reg number is somewhere at the end of the PayPal link you got when registering.

I think that many users fail to notice, or remember the number they get via email in the PayPal link, as they expect a registration number to arrive with the actual keyfile, instead of what the community has been doing, by keeping track of the number placed on registration confirmation emails, with the request for payment. I know that I have deleted those emails immediately after making the PayPal payment, and forgot to notice what my registration number is, on more than one occasion.
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»15.03.17 - 01:09

Gerbinist

# 869
Just looking around

Posts: 13 from 2015/7/27

24/07/2015
#2925
»15.03.17 - 16:15

Barren

# 870
Caterpillar

Posts: 33 from 2016/12/29

Ok sorry... I was invited to add myself to this thread but I was explained only later which my registration # actually was and where to find it ! Luckily I could still find my registering mail in the .recycled dir (yeah, I trashed those mails once the transaction was completed)

So, my Peg registration number of some months ago I can't tell, cos too much time has passed,
while my Mac registration number of some days ago is 3561
»15.03.17 - 21:36

discreetfx

# 871
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 392 from 2003/7/26

From: Chicago, IL

Hopefully MorphOS breaks the 4000 user or higher registration benchmark soon. 10,000 registrations would be very nice to see. Ma
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»15.03.17 - 22:27

Andreas_Wolf

# 872
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12132 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> Hopefully MorphOS breaks the 4000 user or higher registration benchmark soon.

There's no way we can know the number of users. Not even the MorphOS team can.
»15.03.17 - 22:37

Jeckel

# 873
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 133 from 2007/3/11

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
There's no way we can know the number of users. Not even the MorphOS team can.

Sure.
I own 3 licenses (Pegasos 2, Efika, PowerBook) and I am a single user.
I guess I'm not the only one.
»16.03.17 - 08:23

Andreas_Wolf

# 874
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12132 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>> There's no way we can know the number of users. Not even the MorphOS team can.

> Sure. I own 3 licenses (Pegasos 2, Efika, PowerBook) and I am a single user.
> I guess I'm not the only one.

I don't understand. Are you trying to say we get the definite number of current MorphOS users simply by dividing the number of licenses by 3? (Btw, I own 1 license and I am a single user, too. And I guess I'm not the only one, too.)
»16.03.17 - 10:23

Jeckel

# 875
Acolyte of the Butterfly

Posts: 133 from 2007/3/11

I just tell that I agree with you and that this counter has no relation with the users.

Some users have several licenses, some licenses are not used anymore... no way to know actually.

All we can say is that the user base is (very) small. :)
»16.03.17 - 10:38

jPV

# 876
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2076 from 2003/2/24

From: po-RNO

Quote:

Jeckel wrote:
All we can say is that the user base is (very) small. :)

But sells surprisingly well, IMHO :) I think daily sales (I think majority of these numbers are actually sales) for anything Amiga related is a good achievement, and it's been steadily like that all the years.
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»16.03.17 - 11:26

Andreas_Wolf

# 877
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12132 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

>>>> There's no way we can know the number of users. Not even the MorphOS team can.

>>> Sure. I own 3 licenses (Pegasos 2, Efika, PowerBook) and I am a single user.
>>> I guess I'm not the only one.

>> I don't understand.

> I just tell that I agree with you and that this counter has no relation with the users.

Ah okay. Sorry for misreading. I thought you meant "sure" as "sure we can".
»16.03.17 - 11:47

amigadave

# 878
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21

From: Northern Calif...

Quote:

Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>>>> There's no way we can know the number of users. Not even the MorphOS team can.

>>> Sure. I own 3 licenses (Pegasos 2, Efika, PowerBook) and I am a single user.
>>> I guess I'm not the only one.

>> I don't understand.

> I just tell that I agree with you and that this counter has no relation with the users.

Ah okay. Sorry for misreading. I thought you meant "sure" as "sure we can".

I don't really want to argue this topic, because I don't care how many exact users we have, but, I do believe that if the MorphOS Dev. Team wanted to know (maybe they already do this), they could keep a database of individual registered users, and list which compatible computers they have registered. The only inaccuracies that I can think of happening from this imagined database would be from MorphOS computers that stop working, or stop being used to run MorphOS, and the owners fail to ask for a replacement registration for another compatible computer, and for the few registered MorphOS computers that are sold to different users, who do not request that the name on the registration be changed, but continue to run MorphOS on such systems.

Over all, I think the MorphOS Dev. Team could, or already does, know approximately how many MorphOS users there are, if they care to know.
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»17.03.17 - 01:33

OlafSch

# 879
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 186 from 2011/11/16

here is a statement from geit about the value of the counter:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=14&topic_id=5875&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&start=375

[ Editiert durch OlafSch 17.03.2017 - 14:18 ]
»17.03.17 - 15:16

amigadave

# 880
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2795 from 2006/3/21

From: Northern Calif...

Quote:

OlafSch wrote:
here is a statement from geit about the value of the counter:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=14&topic_id=5875&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&start=375

[ Editiert durch OlafSch 17.03.2017 - 14:18 ]

That statement from geit confirms that the number the community is using to track the number of MorphOS registrations, has little to do with the actual number of active MorphOS computers in use, or the number of actual MorphOS users, but it does not confirm or deny that the MorphOS Dev. Team uses any other means to keep track of how many users there are, or which users are using which hardware.

As I said, I no longer care to know exactly how many MorphOS users there are in our community (though, out of curiosity, of course I would like to know the number). My last message was just to point out that the MorphOS Dev. Team "Could" know the number of users, "IF" they wanted to track that number, using the method I described, or some other method, and that such method would be fairly accurate. Most, or maybe ALL MorphOS Dev. Team members, probably don't care to know exactly how many MorphOS users there are, but they might know a pretty good estimated number, if any of them have discussed the topic, with, or without even trying to track such number.
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»17.03.17 - 17:10

Tom4hawk

# 881
Just looking around

Posts: 4 from 2016/10/2

Hi!

After years of lurking (few years ago I've even had MacMini from polish initiative "Wypozyczanka/wedrowniczek" and wrote blog post about that) I've finally decided to buy appropriate hardware and system ;)
Hopefully it won't take another 5 years to download SDK and write some software...

3584, I received my e-mail at exactly 00:00, 31 March 2017
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»31.03.17 - 00:56