On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:25:15 -0400, No Body <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First of all, if any company did that, they would be in VERY deep trouble. >If a phone is wiped out, a user is inconvenienced. If a computer is wiped >out, the user can lose important data. First, companies do go out of business. And open source advocates do stop working on what interested them in the past. Second - virtually all companies only support products for a while. Go to your Ford dealer to get a part for your Model-T. Maybe you thought your Windows 95 was forever, but now you know better. > Second, what happens to all the legimate users if the company goes out of >business? You're fine until you decide to upgrade your system and can no >longer install the software you paid for. So replace "Ford" above with "Hudson". Not a lot of difference. Upgrading computers is a problem, especially in the era of on-line upgrades. I once needed to reinstall Microsoft Outlook, and all of my old messages were unreadable until I re-upgraded it on-line. Fortunately, I beat the "unsupported version of Outlook" by a couple of months, otherwise my valuable correspondences would have been inaccessible until I spent some money on an upgrade. I've paid for some utilities that I'd like to move to a new computer - but Windows (and Linux for that matter) aren't designed to keep track and reinstall downloaded programs. Certainly we don't want to move over the registry intact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
