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Routing a support/install/licensing issue to sales (often 5 different people) to try and strong arm you into paying money doesn't make it a sales issue. I don't know of any other software company that sells perpetual licenses that does this. I've had issues installing old software before, but never once have I been strongarmed to buy again like embarcadero does. Hell, I sell software, and if you came to me an told me you had lost your v1 license key from 2001 I would help you get it installed at no charge (this happens multiple times a week). Of course I might suggest that you upgrade (and even offer a discount to get you on board), but I'm not going to route you to different people or employ used car sales tactics to get you to upgrade, I'll make the offer while helping you. Embarcadero need to do better if they want to retain customers and get old customers back on board, because right now their tactics are driving people away.

I agree it is bad move to create the problem - limited activations with no way to de-activate - then require a support contract to 'fix' it with a bump to the number allowed. As others have mentioned it seems more like a car salesman's slimeball tactic to increase 'sales interactions' than provide any benefit to customers. The policy basically says to active developers trying to reinstall: Give me money or you can go f*** yourself. That is not how you build a developer community. It is likely driving away a good number of developers and killing sales in the long term for a few renewals in the short term. In my estimation they should just allow three and decay them one per year. More than that by request with justification. Or just bring back a way to do it self-serve style like it was before with some upper limit based on time.

https://gist.github.com/danieleteti/1422ef290e20e9529106ae7c9aed0968?fbclid=IwAR1iokzrUKdV2hm-gp63ufE9g-DQFsrt3Qyvwaga8TzKafgigYSKJmjc344 from dmvc fb group from 353 to 4869 https://www.facebook.com/groups/delphimvcframework

I meant this: https://github.com/CPsoftBE/BackupOfCromis/tree/Limagito-patches

Unless someone designed framework poorly. There is also possibility that framework is only for Windows and cannot be used as cross-platform solution. Still, people might use FMX only on Windows, so naming framework VCL would be poor choice in such case.

Encryption is agnostic of framework. I don't see how you could have a VCL only encryption library. You don't need design time components.

Have you tried CryptoLib4Pascal ?