Re: Hardware Lock or Sim

John,

A few years back a company up in Canada advertised they would "crack"
your software so the key was not needed. I believe their ads
addressed the very problem you had. It seemed to me they required
you to send the original disks which a pirate would not have, of
course. So in cases like yours, that would seem to be a legitimate
process to go through.

BTW, did Cadkey return your materials?

I also had a bad experience with the Cadkey people. I bought their
CAM product, called Cutting Edge. Those of us that purchased it
through a reputable machine dealer were assured this was to be one of
their mainline products and would be expanded and fully supported.
Not the case...they promptly dropped the product.

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "John Guenther" <jguenther@l...> wrote:
> I don't condone pirated software either, but these companies really
treat
> you like crap if you need to replace one of those hardware locks.
Case in
> point, I had a copy of CadKey which was totally legal, purchased
from a
> former employer / reseller as shrink wrapped product. I lost the
parallel
> port lock several years ago, and was told that in order to obtain
another
> one I needed to return the entire product, software, documentation,
license,
> keyboard templates and all to CadKey along with the original
purchase
> receipt. I did so, but the end result was that I did not get the
> replacement lock because they could not verify the purchase because
my
> former employer is out of business. There goes a 4 grand software
package
> down the crapper!!
>
> You would think that since the product was registerd when newly
installed
> with the manufacturer that their records would show that I was the
original
> purchaser and that a new lock would be made available to me. Not
so in this
> case, even providing a copy of the original mailed in registraton
form did
> no good. They would not accept me as the original purchaser, but
they sure
> could send me lots of junk in the mail about new products.
>
> John Guenther
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roland Friestad [mailto:cardinal.eng@g...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:40 AM
> > To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y...
> > Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Hardware Lock or Sim
> >
> >
> > Just a comment - Another point of view -
> >
> > While I don't condone pirated software either, I get pretty tired
> > of having
> > to carry around those blasted hardware locks to use with my
laptops - My
> > software is legal but I've actually got one setup that requires 4
hardware
> > locks all plugged into the same parallel port - I'd love to have
some sort
> > of work-around to eliminate the problem - Plus if you ever lose
> > one of them
> > the software companies treat you like a criminal if you try to
> > get another one -
> >
> > Roland
> >
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