His attitude seems to influence both his responsiveness to feedback, and his software support. At the Xlife discussion board that serves as a support group for Acquisition users, the developer shows his true colors as a serial # Nazi by offering a cash reward or free Acquisition registration to anyone who reports pirated serial #s. I thought such an attitude was interesting coming from the developer of a program expressly designed to pirate other software, but hey, I've got my own hypocrite idiosyncrasies, so what the hell.

As a longtime Acquisition user/beta-tester, I quickly found a pirated serial # and sent it to the author, along with all pertinent info regarding it's source, and....he never got back to me. But sure enough, in the next release of Acquisition, he had included the SN I sent in among the list of pirated #s that would elicit a nasty message if entered to register Acquisition. Clearly, this is a principled developer we're dealing with; he's REALLY against software piracy as long as it's his own software.

Normally I wouldn't care, but this guy promises, in a sticky thread on his discussion board, that any and all reports of serial # piracy will be rewarded. My reward is doubtlessly not the only one to go unacknowledged by this rogue developer. He won't reply to my emails, so perhaps by posting here I can inform him that he will NEVER get a registration fee from me. It's unfortunate, because he really does deserve compensation for an otherwise totally *censored*in' app, but his attitude begs for a jumbo can of whoop-ass.