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- >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:
- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960415143330.47286A-100000@navajo.gate.net> Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:
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- Fred> Its good to see many functions are disabled in the demo like
- Fred> writing to floppies, formatting, and the command keys. I
- Fred> just came across the crack for Executor which is supposed to
- Fred> work with 199o,p and q, and its about time the "hackers"
- Fred> were outsmarted. Makes you wonder how many illegal copies
- Fred> are being used out there...
-
- We knew from day one that Executor as we produced it would be easy to
- crack. We didn't want to get into an escalating game of cat and mouse
- with the crackers because they have too much free time on their hands;
- we'd spend more time making Executor better than carefully monitoring
- them and putting in more elaborate and sophisticated anti-cracking
- code.
-
- Once Executor 2 is a final deal and we have CD-ROMs sent out to
- everyone and every new purchase of Executor 2 results in a CD-ROM
- being sent out, then Executor will feel more like a commercial product
- rather than "shareware", which it never was meant to be. We'll then
- be able to make updating programs available via the net that update
- the paid for version of Executor and we'll largely be back to where we
- were before we hacked out features in Executor 2.
-
- I think Executor is especially prone to piracy because many people
- will rationalize not wanting to pay for it because it doesn't yet run
- all Mac programs or because they only use it occassionally. This is
- sad because we spend money very effectively over here. If we can
- boost our current revenue up by a factor of four once Executor 2 is
- out then we'll make substantial progress in the remainder of 1996.
- I'm sure pirates couldn't care less, but the good thing is a lot of
- readers of this newsgroup *do* care. We're very happy with our
- customer relations and we look forward to the day when Executor starts
- getting international exposure (we'll be sending beta1 CD-ROMs to
- press people around the world).
-
- So yes, people who have cracked Executor are marginally annoying, but
- don't let them get you down.
-
- >> The beta demo is unable to format or write to floppies. That
- >> functionality has been intentionally removed from the demo to
- >> encourage people to purchase the full-featured version.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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