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Dans un courrier daté du 26/06/98 23:27:11 , vous avez écrit :
<< Pierre, capitalism can always find a way around regulation. For instance,
suppose a buyer and seller of a copy of TS4 agree on the price of $1,000.
The buyer could pay the seller $900 upon delivery of the program, and pay
the remaining $100 upon delivery of the Y2K patch. The seller (the original
TS owner) gets the patch legally from Omega, passes it on to the buyer, and
gets his $100. Both buyer and seller have a strong interest to see that the
patch is transferred. Problem solved. For those of you who already bought
a private copy of TS4 without such a clause in the deal, track down the
original owner and be prepared to spend a little more money...
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What made me react was not the pice problem or license transfer, but the
sempiternal Yk2 patch story that Earl seems to like so much when he has the
chance to propose again and again his old dish.
Omega has announced that the TS4 patch will be available after TS5 release and
that it will be free.
How many times this has been said here? 20 times ? more ?
They did not say that it will be released to registered users or not, if I
correctly remember.
And this is not exactly an upgrade problem, that is a different issue.
If its free, and not related to any new password scheme, the problem do not
exist, as this patch will certainly be available from their web or
transferable for an user to an other one.
If what's above do not apply (free patch, but needing a new password and a new
protection scheme), this is also consistent with Omega AND regular TS users
interest, as this could stop the Safesoft and the like TS piracy, that will
remain a 20th century TS4 problem.
I hope that the second solution will be preferred to the first one.
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Registered users (or at last those owning a "true" green security block)
should not worry about that, I suppose.
Concerning virtual TS owners, I do not plan to drop a real tear for them
after year 2000.
Regards,
Pierre Orphelin.
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