2008 Beta Registration is now open

ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!

Please no arrows, but...I haven't finished my own Beta Testing of 2006.

/A deterrent to unauthorized use of SolidWorks products with a minimal effect on you, our loyal customer/

hee-hee. a deterrent to one and a detriment to others. :~)>

bob z.

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I wouldn't be to keen to jump into any new version Neil - this single computer per licence thing Solidworks are cooking up for 2008 kind of kills it for me in the for future versions.

hi Nev I hardly ever stop by here to see whats happening (seems pretty dead anyway) but my 'ABOUT BLOODY TIME' response was actually for them offering SWPre as a main prize for beta testing....now if they would give second and third something similar and the top 10 free subs and the top 25 subs 50% discounts or some other imaginative incentive ;) they would actually be listening to feedback of the nature given in

2003! and it hardly costs them anything after all...

Re the licence from what I can gleen it just means phoning home to track which pc its active on I think. whats your issue with it? required internet connection? big brother?

I am holding off SW for some while yet - vista has been a disappointment re openGL etc so far and I am still following quad developments before committing to new hardware (mostly for rendering purposes)

exciting....plus it would be just more of the same tiresome bug battle I gave up already ;)

cheers Neil

charming fellow...gosh I miss it here ;)

well so you visit the SW site and in a few secs its tracked....how many times a day do you anticipate changing/moving between home and office? or are you paying for one and using two? ;) probably you spend 10 times longer checking junk email after each logon...to me it seems like a good attempt at an antipiracy soln...after all you pay big $ for SW why make it easy for others to have it for free?

Ah yes it seems logical there is no problem if you dont upgrade but admittedly its not esp helpful :) They gotcha there... Why not post to the SW forum (sorry i don't go there either) about it and lead a popular rebellion if it is so irksome...

Its that way now once you go to SW 2007 SP3.0 The one thing that SW does let you do is to have one serial number activated TWICE. Once at work and once at home without having to borrow either one.

You can activate the software twice. Once for your work computer and once for your home computer. How many companies let you do that LEGALLY.

Get real Neil!

This is a major pain in the ass for those that spread their work day around home and work.

I'm told that if I don't upgrade, I'll be fine. Go figure.

You are missing the point.

Most times when I work at a clients, I do not have internet access and I do not expect them to go thru all the IT setup, just to get me on the internet to be able to use MY software, that has been BOUGHT and PAID for (well the licence to use it has been paid for).

Now if I have to do other work at home for that night or the next day for another client - I'm screwed. For me this is just a another level of obfuscation and FUD and complication. KEEP IT SIMPLE.

There is a principle called "Ockhams Razor" which still holds true today

Ockhams Razor - the principle pronounced by the English theologian and philosopher Willam of Ockham (c.1285-1349) that, other things beings equal, the simpler of two explanations is to be preferred.

This over reaction by SWX/Dassault is not going to stop people who are going to use the software in illegal ways - whether it is a legit licence used on multiple machines or cracked software.

SWX is making money off of their software. This is true. It has to be. How could they continue to put out software that was 'almost there' after all of these years and still not make money? So, by them putting out software that phones home is only to make some brownie points with SOMEONE that says, "look at me. i am special. i phone home."

stupid.

bob z.