Why should I give you my personal data??? :-}

[Sir_SiLvA]

@Scorpio47:
still you have quoting probs? and buy the way were d'u see anger?
I just wanted to point out just because you are one not everyone else
is one
Sure you buy all your Soft in the Shop - makes me wonder how you buy shareware in shops ? Conclusion: You dont - all you buy is MS Soft
And its good possible that you paid for more software than me,
because as a student I get all MS Soft for free (except Office which I buyed in 2k) and 98% of the other software I use is freeware and the
2% I have buyed and gave my personal data for that.

>IA Student & Supporter
If that were true it should be possible to learn how to quote

[Scorpio47]

@Scorpio47:
still you have quoting probs? and buy the way were d'u see anger?
I just wanted to point out just because you are one not everyone else
is one
Sure you buy all your Soft in the Shop - makes me wonder how you buy shareware in shops ? Conclusion: You dont - all you buy is MS Soft
And its good possible that you paid for more software than me,
because as a student I get all MS Soft for free (except Office which I buyed in 2k) and 98% of the other software I use is freeware and the
2% I have buyed and gave my personal data for that.

>IA Student & Supporter
If that were true it should be possible to learn how to quote

<as a student I get all MS Soft for free >
If you take a look on MS page, you'll see that this exist -> NOT, I also got most MS and Adobe and some other programs from my studies but never FREE, I had most of the time to register my products in holland and mostly I saved around 50 %, Just take a look by MS and internet stores then you'll see the real prices, but never mind, I have better thinks to argue about, have you ever wondered that if I didn't wanted to pay for TC, why then post concerning about that question, hope it's an easy studie your learning

[Sir_SiLvA]

<as a student I get all MS Soft for free >
If you take a look on MS page, you'll see that this exist -> NOT

It does - you are just not looking at the right page, study the wrong thing,
Or perhaps your Uni doesnt participate in the MSDN AA Programm?
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/
My Uni does and therefore

Students enrolled in courses in the member department are able to download the software to their personal computers for use in their coursework and personal projects at no cost to them.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm requiring your name + address because you get free updates almost forever. If I just sold a single version to you, I could simply send you a CD and that's it. But your registration key allows you to use ALL future versions of TC too, so I have to protect it somehow - and that's done with the name+address. Even if such a key is leaked, it's useless for companies because everyone could see that the key doesn't belong to the company. I'm not talking about personal registrations here, where I rely mostly on enthusiasts who want to support my work...

[StickyNomad]

2ghisler(Author)

I'm not talking about personal registrations here, where I rely mostly on enthusiasts who want to support my work...

..and there exists quite a bunch of those, I hope! (because I regard your License model as the fairest I've ever seen, especially for such an extremely powerful and well-designed software!). BTW I see some easy to realize possibilities to catch one or two more of these (becoming) enthusiasts, you'll find my humble suggestions in this thread.

[1/2 OT]
just a curios question: are there many companies that registered TC, or do private users prevail?
[/1/2 OT]

[ghisler(Author)]

and there exists quite a bunch of those, I hope!

Fortunately yes! That's one of the reasons why I can offer free updates!

[StickyNomad]

2ghisler(Author)

Fortunately yes!

I'm very happy to hear that! May the communitiy keep on growing...