Product Installation Unsuccessful Please Reinstall Error 24

Hugh Johnson:

...before the days of Personal Computers, the days of "Big Iron" software was leased, on an annual basis.

When my mom was a youngster in the 60's, she created computer cards like these: Cool to learn about computers filling up huge rooms. A cell phone today probably has more CPU power and storage.

Gerard:

This is also happening in WPOX5....

From the WPOX5 forum:

> There seems to be a flurry of Error 24 messages lately.
> See this thread on WordPerfect Universe:
http://www.wpuniverse.com/vb/showthread.php?postid=211770#post211770
>
> Barry

Andrew

Jeff Harrison:

Hugh Johnson:

...before the days of Personal Computers, the days of "Big Iron" software was leased, on an annual basis.

When my mom was a youngster in the 60's, she created computer cards like these: Cool to learn about computers filling up huge rooms. A cell phone today probably has more CPU power and storage.

Ah....Hollerith cards, haven't seen those since the '60's. I remember the days in front of an IBM 026 and later, an IBM 029 (card punch machines)....

(Oops! My age is starting to show  )

 

Jeff Harrison:

When my mom was a youngster in the 60's, she created computer cards like these: Cool to learn about computers filling up huge rooms. A cell phone today probably has more CPU power and storage.

 

You're younger than you look Jeff I can remember sitting at punch card machines doing those. An the printouts..... you needed a wheelbarrow.

All very interesting I'm sure but off topic!

wache:

You want to tell me that all bunch of people here on this forum have illegal copies!!!???

It appears to be true...

wache:

You should be on edge of closing if you sell every fifth cd/dvd legally and all the rest illegal...

Welcome to the thrilling, chilling world of software sales.

Let's consider Adobe for a moment. We think "Photoshop...Flash.. Illustrator.. indesign... after effects... premiere... dreamweaver".

Add them all up, and you only have half of where Adobe really makes their money.

How many 18-25 year old designers will cheerfully fork over 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD for Adobe stuff? I propose... nearly none. Because, that age group often has a McJob and is trying to figure out how to pay for tires and insurance for their car, or for their cell phone and clothing bills. So, they find or become a nerd from the Dark Side who finds a way to get something for nothing. 3 month's rent is big chunk of cash for a young person...

SuperElectriv:

All very interesting I'm sure but off topic!

Oh, I am sorry. Are you one of the people affected by the X4 drop-dead of the first of June?

FYI: Gerard, in an update to his blog, is asking you to look at his blog, as he will be posting another update, tonight. I suspect that Corel may bend over backwards to help out those who unknowingly bought pirated software. I mean after all, it seems that everything came to a halt, at Corel, and just about everyone, there, jumped on this problem and they are working on it.

If nothing else comes out of this problem, at least many people will no longer trust "Deals of the century" on software products, without knowing the seller.....

 

Jeff Harrison:

Hugh Johnson:

...before the days of Personal Computers, the days of "Big Iron" software was leased, on an annual basis.

When my mom was a youngster in the 60's, she created computer cards like these: Cool to learn about computers filling up huge rooms. A cell phone today probably has more CPU power and storage.

[:

Tthose cards are still in use some years ago in Uruguay  

I don't have to, I was there!! Not sure how come I never kept any punch
cards, though. (First met a punch card in 1957 or so, without a computer
or even a key punch machine around--good old portapuncn cards, AKA
Florida Election Hanging Chad 45 years later).

Met far too many real punch cards from 1960 on! Roomfuls of equipment
including disk and tape CONTROLLERS (not called that but functioned as
such) the size of commercial freezers, display terminal CONTROLLERS far
bigger than a refrigerator with cables the thickness of a ten year old
boy's arm for EACH display station. The good old days when 256K could do
all the processing for a Fortune 500 company. And software companies
were HUGE if they had a million dollar quarter. And if there was a
problem, two or three of their senior programmers would be on your site
in two days, even if from thousands of miles away. And you did not have
to press 2, or 3 or 921 when you called.

Hugh Johnson:

If nothing else comes out of this problem, at least many people will no longer trust "Deals of the century" on software products, without knowing the seller...

I learned my lesson. I got scammed for $50, but I should have known better. I'm really much smarter than my foolish impulse would suggest.

Now that I look closer, I'm guessing that the genuine Corel DVDs do not have that distinctive blue-gray tint on the data surface. Obvously I wouldn't have known THIS small detail by looking at an eBay listing, but it's pretty obvious now that all these problems have come to light. ~It's clearly a writeable DVD!!!

My greed got in the way of common sense.

Hugh Johnson:

SuperElectriv:

All very interesting I'm sure but off topic!

Oh, I am sorry. Are you one of the people affected by the X4 drop-dead of the first of June?

FYI: Gerard, in an update to his blog, is asking you to look at his blog, as he will be posting another update, tonight. I suspect that Corel may bend over backwards to help out those who unknowingly bought pirated software. I mean after all, it seems that everything came to a halt, at Corel, and just about everyone, there, jumped on this problem and they are working on it.

If nothing else comes out of this problem, at least many people will no longer trust "Deals of the century" on software products, without knowing the seller.....

 

No, I'm fine, but there may be people trawling groups like this trying to find answers, I know I've done it in the past and it's annoying when you get noise on the RT!

Well I thought I was buying a second hand version.
The DVD certainly looks used, it came with a full colour handbook, and there is something that looks similar to a sort of hologram around the centre hole of the DVD saying "CORELDRAWRGRAPHICSISUITEIX4 D9-D9-A" , but Gerard has told me it is pirated.
Although it was from eBay, it wasn't that cheap for second hand.

Telling some friends about it, I have already had a few offer me cracked versions of Adobe, which I refused because I would rather have a clean conscious.
Please keep in mind that some of us don't want to sit on the wagon and have been scammed.
In my case, I don't know how one could tell that my copy was pirated.

Jeff Harrison:

It would not surprise me if only 1 out of 5 CorelDRAW installs actively used today was paid for under legal circumstances.

You can get the exact numbers for various countries on the web. The averaged score for legal is 50% in the US falling to below 20% in some Asian countries. Given that you have governments and big corporations included in those figures it could well be that home use even well below 20% legit in some countries.

Anyway I not out to become a preacher for the BSA. There are definitely cases where piracy leads to purchases and it is part of underground software promotion.

MS wouldn't have had such market share with Windows if the early versions didn't have next to zero copy protection. MS effectively used a lack of copy protection to gain market share at a time when every network vendor require a serial for each and every network node.

I'm sure Corel have benefited from piracy as promotion. If you can't change the environment then you need to make it work for you. Seems some have had a pretty good run out of 'cheap' software and now have a chance to go legit at a discount. Not really a great idea to complain too loudly in a forum where most people have paid the full price or paid for updates for years.