Terence Jordan wrote: > (snip) > > > >Another weakness is that really determined users could reformat their hard > >drives if they knew that you went easy on newly formatted drives. They > >would have to be pretty cheap or determined to format their drive to make > >your program work, however, unless your program had a cadillac price tag, > >or they were bundling your program with grey-market systems that were newly > >set up. > > Well forget the check on the hard drive format date within 60 days. I say > no leaniance. There's nothing more annoying to me as a user than to pay for a program, then to have to hunt up a bunch of numbers everytime I do some hard drive maintanence. This attitude only hurts the paying customers, and makes the pirates chuckle. PB