[FRIAM] growth in conflicting info?

[James Steiner]

I hear you!

Microsoft has taken it once step futher with Windows, licensing software to
*processors*, not computers, not people. So, if one upgrades the processor
in a computer (or one replaces an obsolete or damaged motherboard and
processor), you are "expected" to purchase a new Microsoft Windows license
for that motherboard!

~~James
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On 7/18/07, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:
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> [snip]
>
> Then there was Adobe, and my being persuaded to actually buy their
> Acrobat-8 Professional because of the great upgrade it was.   I installed it
> on my laptop, on my home desktop and office desktop, no prob.   Then I went
> to a conference and their security program blocked my access to PDF files on
> the web, having caught me, quite uninformed, as a software pirate, wanted
> $400 on the spot.  So I uninstalled Acrobat-8 and loaded the free reader,
> and that worked for a few hours until they discovered my sneaky trick, and
> blocked that too... I guess...! preventing me from reading some of the
> materials of the people I was listening to in the room.      I did finally,
> a week later, find someone to yell at (a perfectly nice sales person who did
> finally seem to understand and agree to pass it on) whose first response was
> a "that' our policy" statement, delivered with a little note of triumph in
> having a really simple answer.   I think the obvious reasonable thing is to
> license personal software to *individuals* for their use, and pay $15 or sth
> for extra personal installs.   The route 'the system' seems to have gone
> down is writing licenses to *computers*, not people, acting as if there's no
> difference...!!     :~))
>
> Pretty laughable stuff.. !   But are you guys noticing this too?
>
>
> Phil Henshaw                       ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸
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