On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 07:19:50 -0400, "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Oct 5, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> Because they aren't "protecting their software"; they are treating > their customers as criminals. *Potential* criminals. I suppose it's the same argument that they use about security cameras on town main streets like they have in the UK, i.e. if you're not breaking the law when you leave the pub then you have nothing to be concerned about. > > > Traditional methods like product keys obviously aren't working. They > > have chosen the closed source model and I suppose this may be the > > price > > they pay. > > And my question is why anyone would want to go along with this? > Would you buy any other product that forced you to constantly > identify yourself and could shut itself off if either you failed or > it got confused, The 'it getting confused' scenario is the worrying part for me. It has to be infallible. Not likely IMO. The rest is just another step down the 'software/content as rented service' path that everything seems to be going down. > especially when there were alternatives that didn't > require such BS? I sort of see WGA as the logical culmination of the closed-source model, to be honest. It was always going to get to this point eventually. Unfortunately there are still a lot of people whose requirements aren't met by non-Windows platforms though. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
