[NTLK] Newton Connection tools no longer sold or supported

[Dennis Swaney]

Sounds to me like it is now "abandonware" so any competent Newton
programmer should be able to remove the license requirement.

Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"I think, therefore I Mac"

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, that's how it worked. Donations were made to UNNA, I notified him
> when they came in, and he sent on license codes.
>
> It's too bad that this has been discontinued. It sounds like it was a good
> solution for Windows users and I greatly appreciated the support that UNNA
> received from it.
>
> I'll reach out to the author to see if open sourcing it would be an option.
>
> Thanks for notifying us all of this change!
>
> Morgan
>
> On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, Dan <dan at dbdigitalweb.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, well it was "donation ware", where you donated $45 (I think that is
> > the amount) to UNNA and in the note you put "Newton Connection Tools
> > supporting UNNA" then he would get back to you with your license code.
> >
> > As for preparing to release it into the public domain, I doubt it.
> > Granted I didn't ask him, but from the very short letter I got, I don't
> > think he wants anything more to do with it.  And I am sure it would take
> > a lot of time and coding to remove the license verification he put in.
> > But I would love to be proven wrong.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > On 9/5/2016 11:20 PM, Tony Kan wrote:
> > > Hi Dan
> > >
> > > I thought this was being sold through UNNA or that it was donationware
> > and
> > > all profits were going toward UNNA?  I was obviously wrong.  Wondering
> > if he
> > > is prepared to release it into the public domain?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Tony Kan
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net <javascript:;>
> > > [mailto:newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of
> > Dan
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 6 September 2016 1:35 PM
> > > To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net <javascript:;>
> > > Subject: [NTLK] Newton Connection tools no longer sold or supported
> > >
> > > I recently contacted the author as to the status of Newton connection
> > Tools
> > > (a program that works similar to NCU but better for Windows XP and up).
> > And
> > > I got a response that it is no longer sold or supported.  So a warning
> > for
> > > those using it for backups, if you lose your current newton, your
> backups
> > > are rendered useless as the software is locked to one newton and will
> not
> > > work with another without a new code/license key.
> > > And since the software is no longer supported ... no more new codes (at
> > > least I am assuming, he didn't say that specifically but told me to
> look
> > for
> > > something else).
> > >
> > > -Dan
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > http://newtontalk.net/
> > > http://twitter.com/newtontalk
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > http://newtontalk.net/
> > > http://twitter.com/newtontalk
> > >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > http://newtontalk.net/
> > http://twitter.com/newtontalk
> >
>
>
> --
> Morgan
> ---
> http://makkintosshu.com/
> http://centresteer.com/
> http://seriesparts.com/
> http://unna.org/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> http://newtontalk.net/
> http://twitter.com/newtontalk
>