I'm still using their demo. I'm a pascal lover and a delphi programmer since
version one, therefore my affinity to pascal. Mikropascal's IDE looks a lot
(I mean "a lot") like delphi's. But you're right, the registration scheme is
tied to your hard drive, if you have to reinstall your software, you have to
contact them again (I'm 80% sure of that, but you'll want to check either
way). That's very annoying, but as a software engineer manager of a small
company I admit we've done things like this in my company too.

We've thought about some inovative ways to avoid piracy while not annoying
the customer, but that seems like a very hard task.



From: "John Ferrell"
> I am curious about the nature of the install protection on this product.
> If it is the type where I must supply a generated number to them and then
> they provide a key, I can stop right here. If it is of the type that the
key
> provided with my copy is good for whatever machine I install on, I am
still
> interested.
>
> The discussion on their discussion board implies one and only one install
> without re-contacting them. I expect my use of the software to outlive
their
> support.
>
> BTW, some of the Microsoft keys seem to be unnecessary after a few years!
>
> John Ferrell
> My Competition is not my enemy!
> http://DixieNC.US
>

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