On 31-Dec-01, Matt wrote:


> You don't. If you could patch around it, it'd be pretty f**king stupid
> to put in the timeout, wouldn't it?

Your opinion. Not mine. Lots of shareware comes as a demo, where the
software times out and loses features after a period unless a patch is
applied or keyfile is installed. It is easy to make code branch. It
would be perfectly acceptable for the programmers to provide a backdoor
to bypass the timeout code, for many reasons.     
> 
> It's a failsafe to stop you running 10 month old bug-ridden copies of
> V when there are much better versions (or even full releases)
> available, and to make the spread of internal betas less "useful" to
> people.
> 
I know what it's there for, but surely some workaround will be
available, either a new beta, a recompile of the existing beta with a
new date, a keyfile, a patch etc.

Going back to the last official release 3.2? with its bugs, and 10 month
old code is not an option, either :-).   

I personally think you take your role much too seriously, after all
there was a smiley atteched to my original comment. 

-- 
Bob Q

Rocket Scientist during the day,
Amiga Afficionado all night.

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