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Wow, I never heard anyone mention Pinnacle Studio in years! I'm surprised they're still around.
Jeremy Falcon
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Corel still used a licensing app as of three years ago. (The problem is that I do prefer PaintShop Pro and Corel Draw to the alternatives.)
BTW, while it has many problems, I've consistently found CyberLink Power Director to be the easiest video editing program to just throw something together. (For anything really complicated, I prefer Sony Vegas, but haven't used it in five years.)
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Mom still uses WordPerfect (Corel) on her XP machine. She does not want to get a new one or update to newer windows and lose WP.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Per Wikipedia:
Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no product support is available. Although such software is usually still under copyright, the owner may not be tracking or enforcing copyright violations.
If the software is that useful to you, crack/keygen it and be done with it.
IANAL, and I'd never suggest doing this with currently for sale and supported software, but you're sitting in that legally grey area where morally you'd be in the right. You have a valid license, they just aren't letting you use it. If you had an existing installation, it wouldn't magically deactivate itself, so there's no reason why you should be disallowed from installing a fresh copy.
They're just trying to squeeze more money out of you, and going about it the wrong way. They have that activator software sitting on a computer somewhere, they just want you pay again. A customer focused company would have offered to help you activate your current copy, then explained all the benefits of the new version of the software. As it stands they lost money just because they were greedy. Good job, Corel!
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Kyle Moyer wrote: A customer focused company would have offered to help you activate your current copy, then explained all the benefits of the new version of the software.
Exactly! That's what I would have expected from a company with good support! 
Kyle Moyer wrote: just because they were greedy.
Not just that. Also because the support staff was lazy, uncooperative and ignorant! Which unfortunately is the rule rather than the exception nowadays 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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BTW: Can it still be called abandonware if there are newer versions out? Isn't it just if the owner stops developing it all together? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Arguable, I suppose.
I'd say if they change the licensing and activation significantly enough that you can't use an old version, it constitutes a new product. Again though, IANAL...
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Serious Magic did that to us with DVRack when Adobe bought them.
Luckily, enough people screamed loudly enough that Adobe came out with a standalone activation tool for us to unlock our software if we had to reinstall or whatever.
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And they wonder why people pirate their software.
PSP was the bee's knees, before Corel took over. Even I don't use it, any more (except for on one machine that has an X11 license), and it was one of my major tools.
I'm not willing to give them any more money. The trouble is that it will take an awful lot of people to react the same way, before they truly realise that they've screwed it up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Who messed up my code again?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You did. I saw you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know what you coded last summer.
Jeremy Falcon
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That's what Git Blame is for. 
Marc
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Nobody knows how to install git so we just FTP new files when some boss tells us too 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The compiler 
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The code beautifier 
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It was the software source control software of course. Which bad option do you use?
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ah, see, there's an off-by-one bug in the code, so it thought you used the -e (elephant) switch. Try using -g next time and you should be fine.
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You forget the f switch now needs the u attribute to be unobtrusive. Next time try -fu.
Jeremy Falcon
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Did you seed Griff's reply?
A classic "I did it, but someone else has to take the blame" response.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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megaadam wrote: Who messed up my code again?
The same dude that messed it up last time.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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and on the back. IT was me. like 6 months ago
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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We will need a flowchart 
If it is formatting related -> VS
If it is running, but doing the wrong thing -> Management
If it is running, but not doing what the user expects -> User (Clearly)
If it is failing to run because environment changes -> IT Staff
If it fails to compile -> MSFT, for changing the language again (so hard to compile 16 bit C code)
If the code is missing -> Git/SVN
If it fails to make any sense -> That's on you!
Remember, this stuff is easy because it's "Soft" ware... LOL
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