In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/16/2007
at 04:22 PM, Bruno Sugliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But we don't care ( sorry about that ) about the sharks robbing the
>poor salesmen
I wouldn't go that far. I certainly care more about being able to use
the software I pay for than I do with whether someone else takes
advantage of a trial offer, but I do have sympathy for the vendor who
is being exploited by a phony trial of his product.
>It took me 5 hours to replace 2 z/990 by 2 x z9 but it has taken 3
>weeks of my time ( and it is not over ) to get keys for various
>product .
IMHO that's a sign of vendor incompetence rather than the mere
existence of licensing key. IMHO, if the vendor can't issue new keys
in a timely fashion then it should disable the checking until such
time as the support operation is able to discharge its
responsibilities.
BTW, I have in the past requested extensions of trial periods,
especially for shareware. It's usually resulted in my acquiring the
software. However, I would not boycott a vendor for refusing to extend
a trail period, I'd just forget about acquiring the specific product.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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