QA Hates You

I love FTP Voyager by RhinoSoft; I’ve used it off and on for a decade now. However, during one previous workstation migration, I didn’t get a license for it and relied on the command line until such time as I was managing too many Web sites relative to my typing speed. So I downloaded the trial version and ran it for 29 days (of 30) before purchasing.

Immediately, the application popped up a modal dialog box whenever I opened the application reminding me that it was a trial version and I could purchase the application and register it. After a set number of day, it began popping up the dialog box while I was running the application (in addition to when opening the application). I think this was an event-driven reminder, as it often showed when I finished a file transfer.

However, I think the reminder event logic could use a review, as it popped up the modal dialog box immediately after I successfully entered the registration code:

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