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Re: DEMO ONLY
>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Randell <arandell@students.wisc.edu> writes:
In article <49o3ve$a4a@news.doit.wisc.edu> arandell@students.wisc.edu (Alex Randell) writes:
Alex> vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez) wrote:
>> My Key ran out and now I can only run Executor for 10 min, does
>> someone have a new key for this month?
>> Rick
>> UCLA Physics
Alex> Uh, yeah....mine did too...that's it...yeah... :)
Yeah, Rick's letter certainly *sounds* suspicious, but it turns out
that what he was requesting is valid. Executor was first released for
NEXTSTEP three years ago. ARDI was doing well selling on that
platform until NeXT suddenly stopped making NeXT hardware. We had to
temporarily shift our emphasis from Executor/NEXTSTEP to Executor/DOS
(which is where the money is) and Executor/Linux (which is where we do
our development). For a long time our NEXTSTEP customers were left
without new versions of Executor to use, and 1.99q will be the first
experimental NEXTSTEP version to be released. As part of the porting
process, we changed the format of our serial numbers and keys and as
such, we have to reassign S/N and keys to all our NEXTSTEP customers.
So, in the meantime, we publicly released a Executor/NEXTSTEP key that
was good for all of October (and then a new key that was good for all
of November) that anyone can use to unlock Executor/NEXTSTEP between
now and when we finally get everyone their new keys. We really
thought we'd get this done in October, and then we thought we'd get it
done in November, but, as you can see, things slipped, so we had to
issue a new key.
Whew!
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
References:
- DEMO ONLY
- From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez)
- Re: DEMO ONLY
- From: arandell@students.wisc.edu (Alex Randell)