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In article <mwron-ABA4A5.11523509082003@enews.newsguy.com>,
 MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote:

>In article <mwron-DF8D74.11125609082003@enews.newsguy.com>,
> MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <bh1ai7$270g$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
>> "Russell E. Owen" <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>But without nice, solid license key protection mechanisms in place,
>>>>Metrowerks profits have certainly suffered due to rampant piracy. 
>>>
>>>An interesting statement, but one I find hard to believe. What evidence 
>>>is there for this?
>>
>>Metrowerks never said that.
>
>Let me expand on this a bit.  The reason for this was not to stop piracy 
>but to allow us to keep costs down by developing the technologys people 
>need and not having to share the costs to everyone.  

Thank you for elaborating. I knew the person I quoted was not a 
Metrowerks employee. It was a statement I felt unlikely to be true and I 
am glad to hear that Metrowerks is not using such thinking to justify 
their authorization.

As far as technology needs...I'm hoping someday the IDE will be expanded 
to support more languages including scripting languages. I'd be happy to 
pay for a really good Python IDE (one that included your excellent 
editor, a class browser and the ability to run Tkinter or wxPython 
scripts). Dunno what you could charge for such a thing since it would 
only be the IDE you were selling, not the language(s). Sigh. just 
think...it could even interface to gnu C except I can't imagine that 
fitting your business model.

I hope the authorization mechanism isn't too intrusive. If folks start 
having authorization hassles, I think it's going to hit your business 
very hard (since it'll really emphasize the issue of why pay for 
Metrowerks CodeWarrior instead of using the free alternatives).

As a programmer, I'm always happy to see a good company figure out some 
way to get folks to pay for software. I wish you luck.

I'm hoping someday to have a good reason to upgrade myself -- I'm still 
back at 6, but I don't do much C/C++ anymore and the one program I 
maintain only runs on Classic (a camera control program that uses 3rd 
party drivers that have not yet been rewritten for MacOS X).

-- Russell