Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:19:36 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 17:59:52, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On October 27, 2001 at 16:47:25, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Apparently you missed the part of my post where I said that site license copies >>are activated on a per-site basis. One 1-800 call, not 4000. > >This whole idea is incredibly annoying. Can anybody imaging if everytime we >buy a product (CD, book etc.) we have to call and activate it? >A royal pain in the private parts (here it comes the privacy issue :-) >Can you imagine if every piece of software from different companies that we >install in our computer or come pre installed have to be activated with >a 1-800 number? How much time would be wasted? > >Of course, only MS does it and only MS can get away with this because is a >monopoly, otherwise, the market would turn to the competition. I could say this about just about any form of copy protection. "Can anybody imagine that every time we buy a program, we have to put its CD in to run it?" That happens. "Can anybody imagine that every time we buy a program, we have to put a dongle on our parallel port?" That also happens. Most people have some connection to the Internet and activating WinXP will be nearly painless for them. A dialog box comes up, you click yes, wait 2 seconds, and you're done. Wasn't that easy? -Tom
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