I have just discovered that Knowledge Workshop has the same installation restrictions as does Info Recall. These restrictions restrict the computer(s)on which you can install the software. While I understand a vendor's concern about unauthorized software installations, the particular approach taken by these vendors, and possibly others, may some day leave a user high and dry.

Based on their EULAS, I infer that these vendors require knowledge of the specific computers on which their software is to be installed.

The danger to the user is that a vendor may suddenly disappear, making it impossible for a user to transfer the software to a newer or different computer.

I, for one, intend to continue to verify that any software I purchase from a small vendor does NOT have this restriction.

-sc

Given the cost of some of the new programs, especially Knowledge Workshop, which is almost $300, your concern makes even more sense.

By the way, how would you compare Ultra Recall and Knowledge Workshop?

Daly

[The danger to the user is that a vendor may suddenly disappear, making it impossible for a user to transfer the software to a newer or different computer.]

There is another danger, or hassle at least; the way to restrict installation to a specific computer is to tie the installation code to information derived from the specific hardware in the computer. This means that major upgrading, i.e. motherboard change, might impede the software from re-installing with the same code.

alx

Steve,

Others have similarly interpreted UR's EULA, but the developer is on record that it isn't the intended construal. When I bought a license, there was no machine-specific information conveyed. What they're trying to say in the EULA is that you can use it on multiple machines for a single user or on a single machine for multiple users, but not both. And they don't go to the lengths of some other developers in the enforcement.

Stephen Diamond