At 10:26 AM -0700 6/27/07, Chuck Israels wrote:
I just got an automatic "order" email from MM for the 2008 upgrade.
Great....
Now I'll be nine years down the "upgrade" "path."
When MM abandons their incredibly offensive phone-home
copy-protection scheme I will upgrade.
Until then I will not.
If they do not reverse their idiotic policy, and if it causes them to
go bankrupt, I will be heartened.
Phone-home copy-protection is the most egregious threat to the
continued use of owned programs that I can imagine.
What if your essential program requires a connection to company A,
but company A has gone out of business?
Your program AND ALL OF ITS FILES are useless.
Unless company B has come to your rescue
Which it will, of course, do for free, because B cares so much about you.
Uh huh.
If you're lucky enough to have company B rescue you, something
unlikely to happen, then they'll make you pay through the nose.
I will never tie any of my data to a phone-home copy-protection scheme.
Good luck to any who do. Watch your back.
(When I was growing up my dad always said "You make your own luck."
To my mind avoiding phone-home copy-protection is one of those lucky actions.)
-=-Dennis
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