Re: Two install limit on Filemaker 9.5

Helpful Harry <helpful_harry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The reason we now have to put up with the idiotic "activation" nonsense
is because greedy people
[snip]
were illegally installing it anywhere
and everywhere. :o( There is no excuse for piracy, it's simply sheer
laziness and greediness.

Fair enough. OTOH, Filemaker's mother company Apple sold me a computer
with lousy disk drives. The CD drive died a few months after I'd bought
the iMac, the HDD died two years after the purchase with FMP 8 Advanced
installed on it.

If it had been FMP 9, I'd have to deactivate the licence in order to
install the product on the new disk. Should I fail to do that - which is
rather likely since the HDD is dead - I'd have to purchase a new
licence.

Same problem if the computers gets stolen. I tried the FMP FAQ on that
point. It seems that the author has been instructed to mock the readers.
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