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Hello,
I spoke to Invitrogen (France) today and they said that, if asked, they would provide a 2 month free license so that people could do exactly this and recover their files.

The also said they would send me details on a simple procedure to extract the data from a locked version which I will post on the bb.

They told me they have 100,000 users - so hardly a minor specialist application! At €650-€4000 per license, that looks quite fruitful for them.

An earlier poster made the point that it is a good thing to pay for good software. I agree and don't want to seem like a moaner, but I object to the strategy employed here on this occasion. Hence my original post to find out what the alternatives are.

Darren

2009/1/30 Jeffrey Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:47 AM, Darren Hart wrote:

ps anyone using VNTI might consider a backup of their work by exporting
files to .gb format. I don't know if a locked up (expired) version permits
this and you will have no notice that it is about to expire.

My license recently expired.  I had been running VectorNTI on my Mac through a Windows virtual machine.  When the license ran out, I was unable to export any of the sequences that I had created.  Now, if there was only a way to turn back time so that my computer thought it was still 2008 ... ehm ...  ;)

Jeff



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