Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 07:01:43 10/28/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 22:19:36, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. That is exactly why software companies try NOT to do it. That is why those things barely exists in the mainstream market of software that you use daily. Because they have competition and their competitors can claim "We do not have that nasty copy protection". In fact, I never used any product with such annoying copy protection and I do not think I ever will as long as I have an alternative option. That is why competition is so important. >Most people have some connection to the Internet and activating WinXP will be Most don't. Anyway, that not was the point of this subthread. Regards, Miguel >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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