On 2/12/01 1:29 am, "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could do that if you bought them as separate apps. They are all >> available separately, with individual licenses. You bought a single >> license to a suite of programmes, and in return for the massively >> discounted price in comparison to the individual modules, you suffer >> some limitations. > > I understand what you're saying Barry, and it is entirely correct, but I > don't think it's very customer-friendly, that's all <grin> > The customer unfriendly bit is the huge surcharge you have to pay to buy the separate apps! If it was only an additional 10% I wouldn't mind so much. I suspect that the main problem is that people using the apps like you are in a small minority, whereas the number of complaints they would receive if people had to enter four serial numbers would be immense. It's a quandary for MS. How can they implement some sort of protection scheme without upsetting at least some of their customers? I can understand the need for the protection scheme - Office must be one of the most casually copied bits of software for the mac. At my last job we installed office 98 on a mac in one office, then a week later I got a query off someone else in the office about how to do something in excel - it turned out that 10 people had installed the same copy of office! (I un-installed 8 copies, bought one more copy & issued a written notice threatening death & termination in the event of any more piracy). -- Barry Wainwright <http://www.barryw.net> Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
