Nag screen in Crystal Reports and Obfuscator

I did not use before Crystal reports or "Dotfuscator community edition".
Today I tried them both, and they both show the nag sccreen. I click
"register later", then it shows again when I re-edit the report.

Visual Studio costs hundreds of dollars; these two are features advertised
as part of the paid product; and I have to watch this spam whenever I invoke
them?


thanks,

Vadim Rapp

I did not have tried them yet but maybe the registration is free?

S. L.

"Vadim Rapp" <vrapp@nospam.polyscience.com> wrote in message
news:eMN323ymEHA.3896@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I did not use before Crystal reports or "Dotfuscator community edition".
> Today I tried them both, and they both show the nag sccreen. I click
> "register later", then it shows again when I re-edit the report.
>
> Visual Studio costs hundreds of dollars; these two are features advertised
> as part of the paid product; and I have to watch this spam whenever I
> invoke
> them?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Vadim Rapp
>

Hello Sylvain:
You wrote  on Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:18:58 -0400:

SL> I did not have tried them yet but maybe the registration is free?

In a paid product, the registration must be optional, and that's the way it
has always been in Microsoft products. Don't forget that the main purpose of
the registration is allowing the vendor to send you junk mail and spam.
Making it mandatory, therefore, turns the product into adware. From the
legal standpoint - I did not carefully read the license agreement, but I
somewhat doubt that it has a clause that disclosing personal information is
one of the conditions of using the product.

Vadim

Yes, but CrystalReport and "Dotfuscator community edition" are products from
third party other than Microsoft.

You have paid for the Microsoft product, which doesn't mean that you have
paid something for CrystalReport or Dotfuscator.

S. L.

"Vadim Rapp" <vrapp@nospam.polyscience.com> wrote in message
news:eCw5bKhqEHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello Sylvain:
> You wrote  on Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:18:58 -0400:
>
> SL> I did not have tried them yet but maybe the registration is free?
>
> In a paid product, the registration must be optional, and that's the way
> it has always been in Microsoft products. Don't forget that the main
> purpose of the registration is allowing the vendor to send you junk mail
> and spam. Making it mandatory, therefore, turns the product into adware.
> From the legal standpoint - I did not carefully read the license
> agreement, but I somewhat doubt that it has a clause that disclosing
> personal information is one of the conditions of using the product.
>
> Vadim