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Pierre wrote:
>Who wants an unprotected TS copy has certainly other idea hidden behind
this
>academic debate.
>The only interest of removing protection is for piracy, and has nothing to
>deal with a supposed image of the company, enhanced by giving away a
freeware.
Come on now, Pierre, you know full well that a not-insignificant % of the
messages on this list have to do with problems related to Omega's copy
protection scheme. It's obvious that there are reasons besides wanting to
pirate the program for desiring the removal of copy protection. If the new
protection scheme is any more onerous than the current one - watch out! (I
am happy to see that it looks like Omega will give us the choice of keeping
the dongle if we want.)
I trade "real" money. I don't sell systems or indicators or trading
software. As a "real" trader in the futures markets, I know that I would not
trust the equity in my house to a piece of pirated software. Although I do
get most of my support from this list (from good people like you), I would
not want to give up the registered user support that Omega gives me (nor the
manuals - for that matter). Rather than increasing the protection, perhaps
Omega should unlock the program and think up more reasons that a potential
customer would want to pay the fee rather than use non-registered software.
In any case, I feel like I'm re-hashing all the arguments that led to the
unlocking of most software in the late 80's. Been there, done that. So I'll
let you have the last word now and I'll move on to other things.
And I disagree with your comment that the good Bob Brickey knows any more
than I do about how removing copy-protection would hurt or help Omega.
Blaine Mathieu
Turning Point Trading Inc.
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