I'll make sure to forward your message on to the MorphOS Developer Team kolla, so they will be ready to provide the appropriate response to your "your all kinds of tricks".
This post isn't a slam towards the MOS dudes at all - in fact, they have been entirely cordial and open to my questions when I contacted them directly, and I appreciate that and it goes a long way to me becoming a registered MOS user. Now...
It was a valid question that has not been answered, Dave. The "everyone is a criminal!!111" angle with the A.org clownshow here is getting mighty, mighty old. I do find it hysterical that this has turned into a piracy argument when there's absolutely no mention of screwing MOS Team over, virtually no chance of it. I like MOS, as do others. If it was going to be cracked, it would have been by now, and that would be a real shame. No one brought up the piracy angle other than you guys, lol. Despite the HW locked issue, people still seem to have this accusatory tone. It sucks, and it's harming the good offerings of the product they have. I'm not stirring the pot to get them to change their reg methods - it's their ball game to run, and I respect that, but the weird accusations, enough. Your piracy police words took the cake, Dave.
Forward what you want, lol. Thankfully the MOS team are pretty receptive when asked in private about the ins and outs when you ask them. I'm sure you've already forwarded all the messages from people that have pointed out that hardware could be maliciously destroyed and passed off as "broken" to the MOS devs in order to milk them out of a re-reg, and conveniently ignored the fact the license is hardware locked to a specific machine to begin with and can't be used twice without cracking reg schemes to begin with. MOS gets regged cause it's a good piece of kit, it stands on its' own merits - but when people ask simple questions on go the tinfoil police hats. Really, dude? Policing a forums and "forwarding messages about peoples tricks"? That isn't concern for the future of a community nor a product, that's being a weirdo. You're being a weirdo with such statements, Amigadave - and it makes people uncomfortable. Certainly you can see that, no? Colonel Number One User does good! Forwards all posts from people he thinks are shady!
"What have YOU done for the Amiga?" in the sig? "Well, I spent some of the day collecting the names and posts of people I suspect are no goodnik future PIE-RATS of a hobby OS that no one has cracked yet, likely due to respect for all the hard work the team puts in, THEN!!!! I sent them in as fact rather than openly debate some politely worded queries from the community! I'll try and get their IP's and mailing addresses soon for you!!111"
Report away, I pay for what I use, including the handful of copies I've paid for over the years for WB, Amiga Forever and OS4, and I'll pay for MOS if/when I decide it is for me.
This place gets more offputting by the day. I can deal with the love of ones particular camp, even though I am entirely neutral on the issue and see all variants as a boon to the Amiga hobby, but man... I can't get past the creepy police state nonsense that could border on a privacy concern from a guy when it was only an open, public debate. You might as well have told us you're going through our RL mail and garbage cans, "sniffing for clues", Dave. Best one yet... Again, no harm no foul towards the MOS dudes, but man...