My biggest issue with the situation is the text at:
http://www.sasg.com/cgi-sasg/order_info?app=MUI
Quote:
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Thank you very much for considering to register MUI and to support the shareware concept. This will help the author to improve his product and enable new releases. We are now accepting online orders via credit card or bank transfer through PayPal.
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People registering are misled in to thinking there will be "improvements" and "new releases" from the author. Clearly this is not going to be the case.
Releasing a keygen could change the situation (though doubtfully, since there are already keys floating about). It would be trivial to change the registration key format in a "new release" and mail out new keys, rendering the now not-working keygen an indication that development is still active.
How much responsibility does the community have as a whole to educate his customers? Hopefully this thread is a good enough starting point.....