This made my day...

I received a nice email over the weekend from one of our customers. As a software developer, this is about as good as a testimonial gets. :-)

(reprinted with permission)

Hi, Michael.

I just wanted to let you know I broke the world record "Start up your personal blog by just registering, typing some text and clicking after purchasing MacJournal 4". Did it in under two hours, with 99% of that time spent in writing my text.

By the way, I used MacJournal 4, just upgraded, no user manual opened.

Great job!

Regards,

Paul.

http://paulovertoom.blogspot.com/

Software piracy...from this developer's perspective

Just a quick post today. The upcoming release of
MacJournal 4 next week has us running around
like chickens with our heads cut off (what a nasty
visual!).


Here are some interesting facts...

-Software piracy is around 35% in North America.
-Vietnam and China have the highest rate at 95%.
-91% of software auctioned online was actually
pirated.

Let’s make one thing clear right off the bat...
software piracy is illegal and I do not condone it.

That said, I probably have a more ‘realistic“
viewpoint than most in my position as one who runs a
software company and exclusively relies on revenue
generated by it. I’ve talked to CEO’s that will
spend tens of thousands in anti-piracy measures to
protect their software. These aren’t products with
hundred or thousand dollar price points. They are
less than $100 price points. For them, it has turned
into a very expensive and weirdly-psychological
”game“ to stop users from stealing software.

But let’s face facts, if someone wants to
steal software, ours, or any other companies,
it’s not that tough to do and there is not one
thing that I or anyone else could say or do to
prevent a person from doing so. I could very easily
get up on my soap box and spout off a dozen
different reasons why it’s wrong but why would
I waste my time?

This is about ethics. And you either have them or you
don’t.

Mike