Reply To: Air “Stutter” Free at Black Octopus

[superabbit]

So Brian and (presumably) FineAlly got emails with the license code, Fretman, Teebacca, and I got emails with no license code.

I went as far as examining the email messages’ raw source code.

My guess is that they underestimated how many people would want to check this thing out and whatever range they chose, the license code generator ran out. And because that was never going to happen, the server throws no error.

It’s always kinda sad when a company hands out freebie licenses to get users excited about their tech prowess….and then the process gets messed up for technical reasons.

I’m sure the companies in question would say that this sort of failure is an IT issue so in no way reflects on the product, but I would not agree. Especially in these times, if we’re going to be comfortable with software that needs to phone home, then there damn well better always be a server at home to answer the call.

In the case of Stutter here, it doesn’t seem to be part of their regular lineup, so there’s no way to even download a trial version. If you want to play with it, you have to register it via this process.

-Erik
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