The CodeWeavers Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge
by Volker Weber
We are giving away all of our software for free on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008. This is a fully working, fully supported copy of either CrossOver Mac Professional, or CrossOver Linux Professional. No hooks, tricks, timebombs, or gimmicks: it's the real deal.
Now that's a new marketing schtick ...
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must be good marketing if it causes a DoS:
"Due to the high volume of traffic for the Lame Duck Challenge Free Offer, we have temporarily disabled the CodeWeavers main website.
We apologize for this inconvenience. We still love Digg, even if our server disagrees. ;-)"
Apparently it's busy:
Internal Error
Sorry, there has been an internal error in our system. Your request could not be processed at this time.
Contact the webmaster if this error persists.
Error Details:
Error: Unable to find available serial number! Please try your request again in a few minutes.
No:
Line: 42
File: register.php
Bingo! The site is responding to me:
CrossOver Serial Number Sign Up
Thank You!
A serial number has been generated and has been e-mailed to you.
Copy this serial number and enter it on the Registration Page over at the main CodeWeavers website.
More information about this process will be in the email.
and indeed I got a mail with a serial number:
The CodeWeavers Lame Duck Presidential Challenge
You are now registed to use the following serial number for CrossOver.
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bla-blablabla
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To get your free software, simply enter the code above at the following URL:
http://register.codeweavers.com
Once you've done that, you will be able to log into your account on
CodeWeavers' web site, and download your product.
*Alert* This serial code will have a short shelf life. The original
plan was that it would be valid only today. But the response has been
overwhelming for our server, so that site is not working.
Given that, we intend to honor the serial codes through the end of
October, with the hope that our server will get time to recover.
Please try the registration again tomorrow. We will be putting direct
download links to the full version live on our site shortly, please check
our main page to get a full download.
Limit 1 copy per customer. Download only.
Hopefully I've selected the "Linux" version.
I've selected both versions :-) (my alterego also wanted the linux version beside the mac one :-)
Please remember, the serial number itself does not provide you with any registered features. You still have to register your serial with http://register.codeweavers.com/.
The email states that this registration must be done today but the website currently says that the deadline to register the serial has been extended 48hours because the registration page is currently not working.
Seems they gave up:
Full Version Downloads
For today only, we are putting up fully unlocked builds.
I already use the product (Guild Wars on my Mac, yay!) , and get a free year of support extension. For once, a company that thinks of it's existing customers as well !
