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@Elena
While I'm not a big fan of the licensing model, this IS the only way on this market really. With a different approach MorphOS would have been pirated in minutes.
Why then OS4 team decided (by now) not to use a similar policy ? I would
assume that if you make a search on Emule you should find lots of illegal
copies of OS4. Ok, I admit I never made such a search, so I don't know.
But they still didn't.
You told it would be pirated in minutes... well, how much software you find
around with very strong hardware protections which is cracked and pirated
on a daily basis ? Do you really think that nobody could crack MOS protection,
if they cracked stuff like windows or photoshop ? I also could do that, being
a nasty old school hacker, I made more difficult jobs, but I simply don't
want to do it because it would be immoral, imho, much more immoral than
cracking thousands euros software from big $$$ companies. But somebody else
could do it, eventually. But I also agree with all those who wrote here expressing
perplessity about the morality of licensing/protecting a niche or enthusiasts-only
OS like MorphOS. So don't be too sure it can't be pirated at all. Please understand
that this is not meant to be a menace, just reasoning :)
Imho, you should then be annoied also by the miryad people out there who's using
unregistered MorphOS2 and simply restart the machine when the time limit
or such occurs.
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Anyway, it really isn't as bad as you make it sound. First of all, we do give people new keys if they old hardware breaks, and when you sell the hw, you can simply include the key in the price. As for PayPal, you can still use a bank transfer, you'd just have to contact us first.
Ok thank for the hint. I don't say I will never buy it, I'm just rather hesitating
at the moment. The price of 150 euro is still in the upper limit as for me,
also thinking that MOS is still ways more powerful compared with OS4.
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