registering MIAMI software

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lurkist wrote:
I find it impossible to beleive that this is the bottom line.  How can such an advanced piece of software like this be forever crippled?  SOMEONE must know the author and pursuade him to release a public key surely?!?!

People have tried to take over the registration from him, but he just wasn't interested. I think his key server may have crashed, and after that he decided it wasn't worth the time and hassles anymore.

For the amount of slander and innuendo aimed at him and his software, I can't really blame him for saying 'to hell with the Amiga crowd.'  Unlike Proctor and Gamble, he couldn't afford to use legal options against the few who ruined it for everyone.

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mattabat wrote:
Is Holger Kruse available to create a keyfile?
It's just that he's very hard to track down..

It's not that easy.  He sent you a "key", and when you registered your copy of Miami it called out to his keyserver, and generated the needed keyfiles. But the server isn't operational anymore. He did mention that there were some serious "anti-theft" devices in place too.

Don't bother trying to track him down.  He was not impressed by the last person who did that. It may have had the opposite of the intended effect too.

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boing wrote:
So do cracks, keyfiles, etc., work or not?


If software is abandoned by the author and he no longer even offers registration (What! I assure you that Holger Kruse won't refuse free money), then I advocate doing whatever it takes to liberate the software.  If the author doesn't care.... then he doesn't care.. about cracking, piracy of the program, etc.   ;-)

So, just because someone won't loan you their car, you advocate stealing it?

It's his property, and as such, he can do what he damn well pleases with it. He doesn't have to sell it to you if he doesn't want to.  He has the same rights as Walmart.

This is yet another demonstration of the childish attitude that some Amiga users seem to have, and which is a big roadblock to getting people interested in developing Amiga software.

Holger finally tired of the unrelenting Amiga fanatics.  Wonder why?  I don't.