newswire
ouch!
They say all publicity is good publicity but this has made it to digg.. and I think I wouldn’t like what is going around if I was this developer.
“My RSS newsreader of choice was NewsFire. It’s a great, polished product. Despite a minor annoyance with the trial version, I slapped down my credit-card for a full version of the software around two years ago, and have been incredibly happy with it since. I can’t put my finger on the reason, but whenever I subscribe to feeds in NetNewsWire or Safari RSS I end up with thousands of unread posts in my less-important feeds, but with NewsFire I’m always on top of my subscriptions.:
the registration system for NewsFire is a bit weird. There’s no license key to lose. To activate the full version of the application you just type in your email address, and it gets verified against some central licence server.
This was all well and good until the last time I reinstalled OS X on my MacBook. When it came time to re-register NewsFire, I was told that my email address was not valid. I sent off a quick support mail to NewsFire’s author, David Watanabe, and got the following reply:
While you may now activate your software again, the evidence suggests that you’ve activated your single-user license from a suspiciously wide variety of locations. An explanation would be appreciated. I don’t want to have to presume this is breach of license.”
read the full post here